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Defense Intelligence Agency Releases Report on China Military Power By DIA Public Affairs 20190115


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Defense Intelligence Agency Releases Report on China Military Power
By DIA Public Affairs
Washington, D.C., Jan. 15, 2019
Contact:
James Kudla, james.kudla@dodiis.mil, 202-231-0818
CDR Pam Rawe, pamela.rawe@dodiis.mil, 202-231-0808
Washington, D.C. (January 15, 2019) The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) today released China Military Power, a product that examines the core capabilities of Chinas military.

This volume in DIAs series of Military Power reports provides details on Chinas defense and military goals, strategy, plans, and intentions.  It examines the organization, structure and capability of the military supporting those goals, as well as the enabling infrastructure and industrial base.

This report offers insights into the modernization of Chinese military power as it reforms from a defensive, inflexible ground-based force charged with domestic and peripheral security responsibilities to a joint, highly agile, expeditionary, and power-projecting arm of Chinese foreign policy that engages in military diplomacy and operations across the globe, said Lieutenant General Robert P. Ashley, Jr., DIA director.

Since Mao Zedongs Communist Revolution in October 1949 brought the Chinese Communist Party to power, China has struggled to identify and align itself with its desired place in the world.  Early factional struggles for control of party leadership, decades of negotiations to define territorial boundaries, and continued claims to territories not yet recovered have at times seemed at odds with the self-described nature of the Chinese as peace-loving and oriented only toward their own defense.

Chinese leaders historically have been willing to use military force against threats to their regime, whether foreign or domestic, at times preemptively.  Lack of significant involvement in military operations during the last several decades has led to a sense of insecurity within the People's Liberation Army as it seeks to modernize into a great power military.

As China continues to grow in strength and confidence, our nation's leaders will face a China insistent on having a greater voice in global interactions, which at times may be antithetical to U.S. interests," said Lt. Gen. Ashley.  "With a deeper understanding of the military might behind China's economic and diplomatic efforts, we can provide our own national political, economic, and military leaders the widest range of options for choosing when to counter, when to encourage, and when to join with China in actions around the world.

The Military Power series of unclassified overviews is designed to help the public achieve a deeper understanding of key challenges and threats to U.S. national security.  It focuses on our near-peer competitors, and challengers such as Iran, North Korea, and terrorism.

This product and other reports in this series are intended to inform our public, our leaders, the national security community, and partner nations about the challenges we face in the 21st century, Lt. Gen. Ashley said.

DIA has a long history of producing comprehensive and authoritative defense intelligence overviews.  In 1981, DIA published the first unclassified Soviet Military Power report, which was translated into eight languages and distributed around the world.

Two years ago, in the spirit of Soviet Military Power, DIA decided to once again produce and publish unclassified defense intelligence overviews of the major foreign military challenges we face.  DIA published the first in the new series, Russia Military Power, in June 2017.


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