A brigade of the PLA’s Shenyang Military Region participates in an exercise in 2014 to repair battle-damaged equipment.
The South China Morning Post reported that the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think tank, released a new report in January that said the U.S. and its allies should attack the Chinese Communist Party‘s three major military weaknesses and divert PLA resources to the coast and offshore in order to stop the Communist Party’s expansion around the world.
The report, entitled “Seizing the Weakness: Strategies to Compete with a Globally Ambitious Chinese Communist Army,” is authored by researchers Tsutomu Yoshihara and Bianchi. The two authors write that with the rapid expansion and modernization of the PLA, the PLA will not be satisfied with operating only in the Western Pacific, but will project its power far and wide, which will challenge and threaten the United States in many ways, so it must seize the strategic weaknesses of the CCP to stop the mainland’s expansion.
The report notes that the CCP’s weaknesses are threefold. First, the CCP is surrounded by medium-sized countries and powers on its land and sea borders. Second, the CCP must deal with complex crises around it at all times, so the PLA cannot fully focus on global expansion. Third, the CCP lacks the overseas logistical capabilities to become a global power.
The authors write that the complex disputes around the CCP, such as the land border dispute with India, the Diaoyutai dispute with Japan, the South China Sea dispute, and the Taiwan independence movement, all drain the CCP of many resources and “prevent it from focusing on global expansion.
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