Xi Jinping’s PLA Reforms and Redefining “Active Defense”
To date, the PLA has overhauled its structure, geographic alignment, and interservice relationships to enable joint command and control of PLA forces in what came to be known as...
Xi Jinping’s Vision for Artificial Intelligence in the PLA
Nov 16, 2022 · China is seeking to use “intelligentization” to build a “world-class” military. People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers march past a poster depicting Chinese President Xi Jinping at …
Chairman Xi Remakes the PLA - National Defense University
The contributors review the drivers and strategic context underpinning the reform effort, explore the various dimensions of PLA efforts to build a force capable of conducting joint operations, …
Xi Jinping is obsessed with political loyalty in the PLA
Nov 6, 2023 · Mr Xi appears to see no conflict between “political work” and his demand for the PLA to focus on combat. In fact, his recent pronouncements suggest that he sees such …
In 2017, Xi formalized three broad goals for the PLA: (1) to achieve mechanization of the armed forces and to make significant progress toward what the United States would call a …
China's Xi calls for combat readiness as PLA marks founding …
Aug 1, 2023 · After months of intensified and increasingly ambitious drills to project power, Chinese President Xi Jinping, speaking ahead of Tuesday's 96th anniversary of the People's …
Xi Jinping, through official party communiques, announced plans for major reforms of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). 1 Though initially vague in its undertakings, Xi further refined...
China’s Military Modernisation | IISS Strategic Survey 2022
Dec 7, 2022 · Chinese President Xi Jinping has set three goals for the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) modernisation by mid-century (2049 or 2050) as part of China’s larger ambition to …
Xi Jinping is struggling to stamp out graft in the PLA
Jan 11, 2024 · It is taboo in China to cast aspersions on the war-readiness of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). But amid reports that it is also struggling with graft as it splurges on …
Xi Jinping worries that China’s troops are not ready to fight
Nov 6, 2023 · In addition to toppling dozens of generals in a corruption probe, he has revamped training to focus on “real combat” and set the PLA new goals, including to be “basically” …