
Implications of PLA Modernization - Indo-Pacific Defense Forum
2023年8月17日 · Military attendees leave the opening ceremony of the CCP’s 20th Party Congress in Beijing, where Xi vowed to “work faster” to modernize the People’s Liberation Army. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The CCP’s 2027 goals align …
Corruption may postpone CCP’s military modernization, report says
2025年1月7日 · The 2024 report highlights significant developments and challenges within the CCP’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), focusing on corruption, modernization and its growing nuclear arsenal. Corruption within the PLA remains a critical issue, the 166-page report said, with misconduct touching every service in the military.
Understanding the CCP Threat – Indo-Pacific Defense FORUM
2021年2月11日 · He also exposed tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and People’s Republic of China (PRC) in attempts to gain regional and global influence. Exposing and understanding those tactics, Maxwell said, is key to a country’s ability to counter them. Maxwell served 30 years in the U.S. Army, retiring in 2011 as a Special Forces colonel.
Demographic, philosophical factors may stymie Xi’s military ...
2025年3月3日 · Despite the end of the CCP’s one-child policy, fertility rates continue to drop and the youth population, once a significant portion of the total population, is shrinking rapidly, studies reveal. This demographic shift poses challenges for the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) ability to recruit and retain personnel, according to the Rand ...
A Nuclear Shift – Indo-Pacific Defense FORUM
2024年3月5日 · The CCP’s nuclear capabilities exceed those for its long-professed policy of “minimum deterrence,” Cotton said, and the PLA’s capabilities are growing at an alarming rate. Beijing is making “substantial” investments to expand its inventory of air-, land- and sea-based nuclear delivery platforms and building the infrastructure to ...
CCP continues its crackdown on military leaders, expelling two …
2024年7月9日 · For Xi to achieve his ambitions, which include modernizing the PLA and absorbing Taiwan, his control of the CCP’s armed forces is critical, analysts say. By 2014, within two years of coming to power, Xi had investigated and jailed two former members of the CCP’s Central Military Commission, which controls the PLA and which Xi oversees.
Debunking the CCP’s False Narratives - Indo-Pacific Defense Forum
2024年8月26日 · The CCP aims “to achieve what the People’s Liberation Army [PLA] refers to as mind dominance, which the PLA defines as the use of information to influence public opinion to affect change in a nation’s social system, likely to create an environment favorable to China and reduce civilian and military resistance to PLA actions,” according ...
CCP’s missile silo expansion triggers regional concerns
2024年2月28日 · The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) menacing military buildup, epitomized by a rapid and opaque expansion of missile silos, has sparked concern across the Indo-Pacific about Beijing’s intentions for its growing arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.
CCP weaponizes law to gain strategic advantage
2024年2月14日 · The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy aggressively pushes the CCP’s claim, including deploying armed vessels to confront other nations’ ships in the strait. When a Chinese navy ship veered across the bow of a United States Navy destroyer conducting a routine transit in June 2023, the encounter drew worldwide attention.
Experts: CCP’s military purge will escalate
2024年1月16日 · The state-run Xinhua News Agency reported the ouster of nine generals from the National People’s Congress, which is considered a “rubber-stamp parliament” for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Five of the generals were past or current commanders in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force, which oversees tactical and nuclear ...