China’s military reform in the light of American and Russian military reforms

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Amerikos ir Rusijos karinės reformos; Karinė reforma; Kinija; American and Russian military reforms; China; Military reform.

ENToday it is obvious that China has become the third country (next to the USA and Russia) engaged into a full scale RMA with goals very similar of those announced by the USA and Russia - to get national military up to the highest military standards and be able and ready to engage into modern wars. So far those goals are being achieved quite successfully, the PLA becomes stronger and this forces the US to react and redirect resources and efforts to the Pacific with consequently less of them left for the West. As a result, the US requested other NATO countries to contribute more to the burden sharing and strengthen own defenses. Simultaneously strengthening China opened “a window of opportunity” for Russia. Now it is not only seeking to get China as a strategic ally but also started to act more aggressively in other regions including Baltics and North Atlantic and by this forcing NATO countries, including Lithuania, to pay more attention to national security issue. [Extract, p. 86]