China's Pursuit for World Power Status: Is the Transformation of the People's Liberation Army a Threat to the United States Global Interest and Security

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the increasing capabilities and goals of the PLA, and show that the focus of the CCP national strategy is to obtain a near mirror image military capability to the United States within the next decade. This desire from a Chinese perspective is not to modernize and transform the PLA in order to provoke military conflict with the US, but to have a deterrence capability to maintain its economic and diplomatic progress in the areas in which both nations have national interest.