China''s Military in Transition

China''s Military in Transition is the most comprehensive study of the Chinese People''s Liberation Army (PLA) ever published. Drawing upon a broad range of documentary sources and interviews, many of the world''s leading specialists on the Chinese military provide in-depth and expert analyses of China''s military modernization programme. This unprecedented volume covers many aspects of the PLA on the eve of the twenty-first century: party-army relations and the role of the PLA in domestic Chinese politics; the changing officer corps; the paramilitary People''s Armed Police; troop reorganizations and the demobilization programme; the national security and defence policy decision-making processes; the military-industrial complex and defence industrial conversion; defence finance, budget, and training; weapons procurement; nuclear force modernization; threat perceptions; power projection capabilities; and the military balance in the Taiwan Strait.