Or here is some more information:
The Chinese Military Power Page
Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies Policy Studies No. 2: China's Military Capabilities
China's Military Capabilities Apr 2001
China's Nuclear Stockpile (several years old... you can bet it's more now)
Hope some of this helps.
Mrs Kus
or orbat.com here.
Another site, http://www.softwar.net/index.html
Softwar seems a bit conspiratorial, but has lots of information on the chinese, and plenty of links.
Things are changing in China. Capitalism is creeping in .. you see it everwhere. All over the streets there are people selling wares they have made themselves. This is a new concept there, and the people have latched on with all their might. This is a real opportunity to escape poverty for them.
Another big change, is the *hold* they have on the people. There was a time when the people of China all just did as they were told .. like robots. Now you see an element of they bucking the rule. This is particularly obvious with the Falun Gong. This is the beginning of insurgence there .. something unheard of under Mao.
I don't think we should be isolating China. We need to get close to them, and send over as many Capitalistic ideas as we can. That is going to be the undoing of China. Once people begin to move out of poverty, you cannot hold them down.
When they fought us in Korea, they had hundreds of thousands of battle-hardened veterans of over a decade of fighting the Japanese in World War II, and fighting in the simultaneous Chinese civil war.
We killed most of those guys and the ones that are left are now so old that they're likely passing out of command of the current army.
Their last major war was with India, almost 30 years ago. They won that one.
Their last REAL fighting at all was their "incursion" against Vietnam, in 1979, where they proceeded to get their asses kicked by NVA veterans.
That's over 20 years ago.
So you're looking at one of the least-experienced military forces in the world.
It has been translated and posted by CIA.
It may cause sleepless nights and bedwetting.
It has been translated and posted by CIA.
It may cause sleepless nights and bedwetting.
I won't even mention their future plans to advance their space capabilities. And most importantly, their COMPUTER warfare (check "cyberwar" on Newsmax) will far surpass ours.
Bold prediction: If we don't stop Chinese immigration and student visas NOW, they will have thousands (hundreds of thousands, millions?) of subversives in place to do incredible harm. A good scenario in that vein is John L. Perry's Newsmax article "Without Firing A Shot"
What we do to the Islamic terrorists is but a dress rehearsal for what we will have to do with China.
It's also available on Amazon.
It's meant to be a book with a message ... a warning couched in hopefully an exciting story line. It is also based on the CIA translation of China's internal document ...