Product Description: The PLA is keenly aware of its many weaknesses and is vigorously striving to correct them. Although it is only natural to focus on the PLA's growing capabilities, understanding the PLA's weaknesses-and its self-assessments-is no less important.

Product Description: China is flexing its growing military and strategic clout in the pursuit of broadening national security interests. At the same time, the country’s economic and technology policies have also become more nationalistic, state-centered, and ambitious...read more

Product Description: Among the most important issues in international security today are the nature and the global implications of China’s emergence as a world-class defense technology power. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Chinese defense industry has reinvented itself by emphasizing technological innovation and technology...read more

Product Description: Fortifying China explores the titanic struggle to turn China into an aspiring world-class military technological power. The defense economy is leveraging the country's vibrant civilian economy and gaining access to foreign sources of technology and know-how...read more

Product Description: This book examines the rise and fall of the Chinese military business complex between the early 1980s and late 1990s. Cheung analyzes the commercial success of this economic powerhouse, its impact on civil-military relations, and the broader benefits and drawbacks of the military's participation on money-making activities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)