‘Surprising’ how quickly China’s military is closing gap with US: analyst Lyle Goldstein

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Analyst Lyle Goldstein discusses the rapid progress of China's People's Liberation Army modernization over the past decade and forecasts its position by 2027, highlighting the military's narrowing gap with the US.

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