Technology Defense And External Relations In China 1975-1978

This volume surveys efforts by China's post-Mao leadership to adopt modern technology in China's industrial and economic sectors while focusing new attention on an increasingly obsolescent defense structure. The author presents these efforts against the background of the external political and military environment to which the PRC must react. He outlines the foreign policy and strategic problems that faced the new administration as it came to power in Peking and examines the military industrial and technical resources currently at China's disposal as well as changes that have been proposed implemented or that may be required in the future. Finally he suggests some of the limitations circumscribing government policy in these areas and some of the choices that lie ahead.