‘SURPRISING’ HOW QUICKLY CHINA’S MILITARY IS CLOSING GAP WITH US: ANALYST LYLE GOLDSTEIN

Lyle Goldstein is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and director of Asia engagement at the Washington think tank Defence Priorities. How do you assess the progress of the People’s Liberation Army’s modernisation drive in the past 10 years and its significance in modern military history?

News - South China Morning Post reports that lyle Goldstein is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and director of Asia engagement at the Washington think tank Defence Priorities.

The report adds: How do you assess the progress of the People’s Liberation Army’s modernisation drive in the past 10 years and its significance in modern military history?

How do you forecast the PLA’s position in 2027, which it set forth as one of three vaguely defined modernisation benchmark years?

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