China's Military Modernization
Subtitle: International Implications (Contributions in Military Studies)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: March 22, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780313256264
Subjects: History of specific subjects; War & defence operations; History; History - Military / War; Military; Military - General; History / Military / General; 1985-1995; Armed Forces; China; Military Policy; World politics
Description: "This work offers a basic understanding of the military-strategic basis and trajectory of a rising China, provides background, and outlines current and future issues concerning China's rise in strategic-military influence. The next decade may witness China's assertion of military or strategic pressure on Japan, the Korean Peninsula, India, the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, Central Asia, or even on behalf of future allies in Africa and Latin America. While conflict is not a foregone conclusion, as indicated by China's increasing participation in many benign international organizations, it is a fact that China's leadership will pursue its interests as it sees them, which may not always coincide with those of the United States, its friends, and allies."--Publisher.