Last week, the PLA Daily, the official newspaper of China’s armed forces, published a lengthy and unusually candid article assessing the People’s Liberation Army’s shortcomings. State military commentary typically celebrates progress under President Xi Jinping’s military modernization drive, and this essay was no different. But it also criticized “profound deficiencies” in the PLA’s integrated joint […]
China’s Military Self-Critique
Beijing’s drive for a world-class military is colliding with its own political insecurity.
