The U.S. Defense Department's Annual Report on China was not well received in Defense circles in China, and not even mentioned by any of the mainstream press in the U.S. But, it is worth reading by anyone interested in China.
Some interesting things you might learn from this report:
The Chinese military strategy supports the Commuunist Party and keeps it in power. Every aspect of the country's political, economic and military policy support the Party and keeps the Chairman in power. The writers of this report did a good job putting that aspect together.
The push in UAVs documents the Chinese developments in armed (air-to-ground) drones, surveillance drones - including armed ones, and deployed them to the South China Sea.
The Chinese are still working on more sophisticated long-range (that can reach the United States) and medium range missiles. They have extensive additions to their space program.
The Navy is rapidly expanding.
China still uses cyber attacks to infiltrate and steal information about the defense industrial base, military forces, and strategies. I'm not sure what the Obama Adminstration got them to stop doing, but this was not it.
It is a long report but well put together.
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