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China Naval Modernization : Implications for Navy Capabilities Background and Issues for Congress Updated December 2, 2021 Congressional Research Service RL33153 China Naval Modernization : Implications for Navy Capabilities Congressional Research Service Summary In an era of renewed great power competition, China s military Modernization effort, including its Naval Modernization effort, has become the top focus of defense planning and budgeting. China s navy, which China has been steadily modernizing for more than 25 years, since the early to mid-1990s, has become a formidable military force within China s near-seas region, and it is conducting a growing number of operations in more-distant waters, including the broader waters of the Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and waters a
PLA Navy, or PLAN (also abbreviated as PLA[N]), and its air force is called the PLA Air Force, or PLAAF. The PLA Navy includes an air component that is called the PLA Naval Air Force, or PLANAF. China refers to its ballistic missile force as the PLA Rocket Force (PLARF).
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