china military report 2010

The problem with greater transparency is that PLA will expose its weakness to the outside world, mainly the USA and taiwan. Until PLA can stand its own against US armed forces, even if its barely, it will continue to hide its military.

Unlike Russia, China doesnt have a large nuclear force to deter the US armed forces from attacking (they have so few strategic nuclear warheads, that they have to constantly move them).

And China has the taiwan issue to deal with.

rofl, why the hell does China need to be transparent in its military expenditures?

china doesn't need to be transparent at all ... it works for the US to rally regional countries against china as being secret gets spun as threat to region with goals of conquering.. if it is transparent it exposes its weaknesses and all rivals with see this as weaken and move against it especially with US backing

My initial impression is that a good portion is copied and pasted from the previous years. The introduction, opening paragraphs to certain sections and graphics depicting MRs and ballistic missile range are carry-overs since 2007.

What is interesting about this year however, is that the name of the report is change to reflect the broader scope that is encompassed by this document.

The 2010 report also take a stab at the various non-military and asymmetric aspects that is contingent to Chinese military development and strategies, such as the in the analysis on the acquisition of natural resources and advanced tech.

Last but not least, asymmetric, space and cyber warfares got their own section, signifying these fields increasing importance.

Well China didn't really increase the military expenditure this much this year. The PLA is pretty angry with the politburo right now. I'd lol if they put that in for the next year's assessment.

Orthan said:

The problem with greater transparency is that PLA will expose its weakness to the outside world, mainly the USA and taiwan. Until PLA can stand its own against US armed forces, even if its barely, it will continue to hide its military.

Unlike Russia, China doesnt have a large nuclear force to deter the US armed forces from attacking (they have so few strategic nuclear warheads, that they have to constantly move them).

And China has the taiwan issue to deal with.

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That's why I've always considered that the PRC needs at a minimum a standing force of 100 MRV equipped ICBMs for nuclear deterrence, and a conventional force stronger than the Soviet Far Eastern Front at its height. That type of force level would be credible enough to prevent any notions of offensive actions by hostile parties.

What did everyone think of the section that mention the use of ballistic missiles for anti-access and area denial?