The PLA's Long March Toward a World-Class Military

General Secretary Xi Jinping has ordered China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) to become a "world class military" by midcentury. What a "world class" PLA means, however, remains uncertain. How are China's leaders simultaneously cultivating loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party while encouraging professionalization in the PLA? What role does the PLA envision for capabilities such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and unmanned systems for operations such as an invasion of Taiwan? Will the PLA project power around the world similar to the U.S. military? Will China achieve nuclear parity with the United States? Does China seek to establish additional overseas military bases? And what does this all mean for the United States' relations with key allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific, from Japan, Australia, and the Philippines to Taiwan, South Korea, and others?
To examine these critical questions, NBR is convening an event featuring key contributors to the annual PLA Conference series to discuss the findings from the forthcoming volume , which features papers from NBR's 2024 Conference on the PLA. The in-person only event will be held on Tuesday, October 28, in Seattle from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
FEATURED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Admiral Jonathan Greenert, U.S. Navy (ret.)
Roy Kamphausen, The National Bureau of Asian Research

Additional speakers to be confirmed.

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