China’s Grand Military Reform: What Will It Be Like?

The media, mostly those in Hong Kong, have been publishing sporadic comments on the PRC leadership’s plans to launch a sweeping military reform shortly after the change of generations in the PRC leadership in late 2012 — early 2013. The most detailed such article was printed in the South China Morning Post newspaper two days before the grand parade on 3 September 2015, when PRC leader Xi Jinping announced reductions in the People’s Liberation Army of China (PLA). Yet the process of preparing a large-scale reform actually began still ...