About Edward Sing Yue Chan

Dr Edward Sing Yue Chan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, the Australian National University. His research focuses on China’s foreign policy, East Asian security, sea power and maritime security. He is the author of China’s Maritime Security Strategy: The Evolution of a Growing Sea Power.

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How Fearful is China’s Military Rise?

Posted on 26 April 2023 by Edward Sing Yue Chan
DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released

During a meeting with delegates from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the People’s Armed Police Force at the Fourteenth National People’s Congress in March 2023, Xi Jinping called for the improvement of China’s ‘integrated national strategies and strategic capabilities’ and to ‘accelerate the modernisation of [the] army as a world-class armed force’. His speech … more