Sunday, February 15, 2015

China and the Future of Military Conflict-Zackary Ledlow

China is growing at an alarming rate both economically and militarily.  The only problem, it still is way behind a lot of other nations, specifically the United States.  Since we are talking about conflicts and decision making I figured this news article would be very fitting.  According to this article, the PLA has many different problems that it must overcome to become a stronger military.  One of these problems is corruption.  They say that people can simply purchase a promotion in the military.  Obviously this has a lot of issues.  China's one child policy has also created a lot on only children who are spoiled.  But one of the biggest hurdles is the fact that a lot of the technology and equipment that China has is out dated.  Economically China is very strong and growing.  However, militarily I think China has a lot of growing left to do before it can even be compared to the might of the United States.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/13/asia/china-military-shortcomings/index.html

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