Senior DOD official previews risks cited in upcoming China military power report

By Tony Bertuca / October 5, 2023 at 11:57 AM
The upcoming release of the Pentagon's annual China Military Power Report will state that Beijing has increasingly come to rely on its military -- the People's Liberation Army -- as a tool for coercion and "revisionist" aims in the Indo-Pacific amid the rapid modernization of its nuclear arsenal, according to a senior Defense Department official. Speaking today at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Ely Ratner, the assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, said the congressionally mandated...

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