{"id":2066,"date":"2020-10-03T21:33:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T16:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2024-12-03T10:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T04:40:53","slug":"china-through-usa-prism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2020\/10\/03\/china-through-usa-prism\/","title":{"rendered":"14: CHINA THROUGH USA&#8217;s PRISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><u>Annual Report to US Congress.<\/u> Office of the US secretary of defense recently published the unclassified part of the annual report on military and security developments involving the people\u2019s republic of china. The US Department of Defense (DoD) has been providing this report for the last 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><u>Scope of these Reports<\/u>. These reports assess the contours of China\u2019s national strategy, its approach to security and military affairs, and potential changes in the PRC\u2019s armed forces. They essentially include the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The current and probable future course of military-technological development of the PLA.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The tenets and probable development of Chinese security and military strategy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Military organizations and operational concepts supporting such development.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><u>2020 Report<\/u>. This report is special because, 2020 is an important year for the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) before the milestone of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) centenary in 2021. It is also the timeline for the Chinese broader interim goal to transform China into a \u201cmoderately prosperous society\u201d. The report covers developments until the end of 2019. Developments in 2020, including the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, would be covered in the next report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><u>Report Analysis<\/u>. The report is of 200 pages with a 15 page executive summary. While the report provides an insight into developments in China and the PLA, it analysis is from Sino-US point of view.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><u>Analysis from Indo-China Perspective<\/u>. It would be worthwhile to analyze the contents of the report from Indo-China point of view.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Coming up &#8211; Series of articles<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">China Through USA&#8217;s Prism: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indo-China Perspective<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2020\/10\/21\/china-through-usa-prism-indo-china-perspective-part-1\/\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">Please click here for part 1.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Report to US Congress. Office of the US secretary of defense recently published the unclassified part of the annual report on military and security developments involving the people\u2019s republic of china. The US Department of Defense (DoD) has been providing this report for the last 20 years. Scope of these Reports. These reports assess &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2020\/10\/03\/china-through-usa-prism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;14: CHINA THROUGH USA&#8217;s PRISM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,25,78],"tags":[6,24,47,8,39,38,79,52,45,60,40],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-china","category-military-capability","tag-airpower","tag-china","tag-defence-services","tag-iaf","tag-india","tag-indian-air-force","tag-military-capability","tag-strategic-thinking","tag-usa","tag-warfare","tag-world-order"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8217,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/8217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}