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China's Quest for Foreign Technology
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China's Quest for Foreign Technology

by William C. Hannas, Didi Kirsten Tatlow
September 2020
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
12h 29m
English
Routledge
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THE PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY AND FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY

Elsa Kania and Peter Wood

Throughout its history, the modernization and technological development of China’s military has benefited significantly from the transfer and acquisition of foreign technologies. Once relatively backwards as a force, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has found itself at the center of global concern and attention due to its recent deployment of advanced fighters, missiles, and ships, and other advanced capabilities. Although initially heavily reliant upon procurement and reverse engineering of foreign weapons systems and defense technologies, the PLA today appears to be in the process of transforming into a force capable of truly indigenous innovation.

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