Accession Number:

ADA280638

Title:

China's Program of Weapons Modernization and Proliferation: Effects on Its Neighbors

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL

Personal Author(s):

• Strauss, Randall W.

Report Date:

1994-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

39.0

Abstract:

China is changing its armed forces from a large, manpower-intensive force using low-to-medium technology weapons to a smaller, but more modern force. The Chinese are financing the conversion by shifting from a weapons export program based on ideology to one based on profit, with relatively few exceptions. They are using the profits to acquire high technology weapons from the former Soviet Union. This new approach has been successful, and their influence in Asia is growing.

Descriptors:

• *MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN)
• *MILITARY MODERNIZATION
• *CHINA
• WEAPONS
• PAKISTAN
• MANPOWER UTILIZATION
• PROFITS
• FOREIGN MILITARY SALES
• ASIA
• DEFENSE INDUSTRY
• WEAPON SYSTEMS
• USSR
• EXPORTS

Subject Categories:

• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE