This report illustrates how the Chinese Communist Party has frequently turned to the People's Liberation Army in support of its global ambitions and provides an assessment of PLA capabilities that underscores why the PRC represents the Defense Department's pacing challenge.
China is developing new intercontinental ballistic missiles. These may also be conventionally armed missiles. "If developed and fielded, such capabilities would allow the PRC to threaten conventional strikes against targets in the continental United States, Hawaii, and Alaska”.
