The biggest concern about the Chinese developments is that their military strategy is changing. The military doctrine of China used to be an inward looking, so to say, to protect the happy society from capitalist invasion, but it is now expanding outward. This means that PRC army and Navy are at present reformulating their strategies from defensive ones to the aggressive. PRC military forces have been developing the techniques and training for attack purposes. The Spratley island case is a prime example of such developments.
People are still China's greatest resource.
And today it has what is probably the worlds fastest growing military budget, while other super powers are reining in military spending. Fuelled by an economy that is solid and steadily growing , the Chinese military establishment is now not merely a force to be reckoned with because of its dimensions. It is increasingly better equipped and trained at lower echelons, and dramatically more effective and well equipped with the types of sophisticated heavy weapons a super power would use to project force, to impose its will not only on its contiguous neighbours but to any global point it feels it has a vested interest. The simulations at the U.S. Naval War College indicate the same result. This material, together with recent materials from military studies indicates that the military presence in Western Pacific is purely for economic - politic reasons.