Quick response: military planners focus on external threats

Article Abstract:

The wide-ranging reshuffling of China's central military leadership has led to the modernization of its huge but outdated armed forces. Reorganizing combat forces and rewriting military doctrines are seen to be the emphasis of this effort as fund limitation allowedonly a modest acquisition of weapons. A small number of select units will receive more funding for training and will be prioritized in weapons allocationin order to maintain a high level of operational readiness. The primary missionof these elite group armies is to defend the capital from external threat, particularly from Russia.

Armed Forces

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Lacking depth

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China's submarine fleet, though considered to be one of the largest in the world, is not fully operational. Although there is an estimated 100 submarines in the Chinese navy, more than half of this number are either non-operational or decommissioned. Six submarines are locally built with only one of them a Xia-class ship having the capacity to carry strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. Still, military analysts suspect that the Xia is already having technical problems. The small budget for the fleet makes it impossible to upgrade maintenance.

Equipment and supplies, Maintenance and repair, Submarines, Submarine boats, China. People's Liberation Army Navy

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Fit to fight

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China continues reforming its military as delegates a meeting of the Central Military Commission agreed on substantial cuts in troops and stricter management of the People's Liberation Army. No fixed numbers were agreed upon, however, leading to the belief that some commanders are resisting the cuts because of the unemployment that would result. Also discussed at the meeting was the establishment of a new command headquarters that would be directly under general headquarters and in charge of several group armies and rapid deployment forces.

Military policy

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