panzerkom
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The Pentagon's 2008 Report on China's Military is out, and you can check it out .
I haven't finished reading the whole thing yet, but the Executive Summary sounds like almost as if its intended readership is the Chinese leadership.
The following passages are especially interesting:
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It's almost like the author of the report is pleading with the Chinese leadership to be more open.
I haven't finished reading the whole thing yet, but the Executive Summary sounds like almost as if its intended readership is the Chinese leadership.
The following passages are especially interesting:
The United States welcomes the rise of a stable, peaceful, and prosperous China. No country has done more to assist, facilitate, and encourage China’s national development and its integration in the international system. The United States continues to encourage China to participate as a responsible international stakeholder by taking on a greater share of responsibility for the stability, resilience and growth of the global system. However, much uncertainty surrounds China’s future course, in particular in the area of its expanding military power and how that power might be used.
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China’s leaders have yet to explain in detail the purposes and objectives of the PLA’s modernizing military capabilities. For example, China continues to promulgate incomplete defense expenditure figures, and engage in actions that appear inconsistent with its declaratory policies. The lack of transparency in China’s military and security affairs poses
risks to stability by increasing the potential for misunderstanding and miscalculation. This situation will naturally and understandably lead to hedging against the unknown.
It's almost like the author of the report is pleading with the Chinese leadership to be more open.