China's Emerging National Security Interests and Their Impact on the People's Liberation Army

• Main Author: Scot Tanner, Murray (auth)
• Other Authors: MacKenzie, Peter W. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Quantico, VA Marine Corps University Press (MCUP) 2015
• Subjects: International relations; War & defence operations; China; national security; People's Liberation Army; strategy
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

As China's security interests expand and its power grows, it may increasingly have to choose between a long-range calculation that it should avoid angering its neighbors in the region and a short-term desire to display its newly won capacity to defend its interests and assert its power. Drawing...