China's Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach

Until now, no single volume has provided an authoritative, comprehensive, and concise description of China's evolving geo-strategy, or detailed how China is transforming its military to carry out this strategy. This work provides background on, and an outline of, current and future issues to facilitate an understanding of the military-strategic basis and trajectory of a rising China.

Richard Fisher examines how the People's Liberation Army (PLA) remains critical to the existence of the Chine...