August 01, 2025
China Military Scholar Elsa Kania on the PLA’s Dramatic Modernisation
Today we speak with Elsa B. Kania, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, about China’s military modernisation. How good is the People’s Liberation Army? Where has it progressed? Where is it still deficient? And the big ones: can it match the US and how ready is it to take Taiwan by force if Xi Jinping gives the order?
Listen to the full interview on Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
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