The Dragon's New Teeth; China's Military Rise  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8779 (Apr. 2012), page 23-26.
Topik: Geographic Profiles; Armed Forces; Defense Spending; Statistical Data; Military Readiness; Modernization; Ratings & Rankings; International Relations

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China's Communist Party is presiding over the world's largest military build-up. That China is rapidly modernising its armed forces is not in doubt, though there is disagreement about what the true spending figure is. China's defence budget has almost certainly experienced double digit growth for two decades. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is still the largest army in the world, with an active force of 2.3m. But China's real military strength increasingly lies elsewhere. The Pentagon's planners think China is intent on acquiring what is called in the jargon A2/AD, or "anti-access/area denial" capabilities. The idea is to use pinpoint ground attack and anti-ship missiles, a growing fleet of modern submarines and cyber and anti-satellite weapons to destroy or disable another nation's military assets from afar. In the western Pacific, that would mean targeting or putting in jeopardy America's aircraft-carrier groups and its air-force bases in Okinawa, South Korea and even Guam. According to senior American diplomats, China has the ambition--and increasingly the power--to become a regional hegemon; it is engaged in a determined effort to lock America out of a region that has been declared a vital security interest by every administration since Teddy Roosevelt's. Making things more alarming is a lack of transparency over who really controls the guns and ships.

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