Posted by: chinauprising | February 4, 2009

China’s Military Power – Council on Foreign Relations

China’s Military Power – Council on Foreign Relations

  1. Since the 1990s, China has dramatically improved its military capabilities on land and sea, in the air, and in space.
  2. But experts say China is still decades away from challenging U.S. military’s preeminence. Its ground forces field 1980s vintage armor and suffer from significant shortcomings in command and control, air defense, logistics, and communications.
  3. Yet the United States’ relative space advantage will probably shrink as China strengthens its space capabilities over the next ten to twenty years, writes Bruce W. MacDonald in a September 2008 Council Special Report.
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