China's Expanding Military Power

摘要

China is making steady and ominous gains in the quality of its military forces and its ability to project power-while making more open challenges to the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific and worldwide, according to the Pentagon's 173-page China Military Power Report released in late August. China has surpassed the U.S. in the size of its naval force, its missiles, and air defenses, and is rapidly narrowing the gap in other areas of military competition, the report says. At the same time, China continues to pursue asymmetric means for neutralizing U.S. military strengths. The imbalance of power across the Taiwan Strait also continues to grow in China's favor.