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Understanding the tenets of the People's Republic of China's (PRC's) national strategy is essential to understanding the drivers of the PRC's security and military strategy. This understanding, in turn, offers insights on the current and future course of People's Liberation Army (PLA) reform and modernization efforts in terms of its strength, technological advances, organization, and operational concepts—all of which could offer PRC leaders expanded military options to support national goals.
As PRC leader, Xi Jinping concurrently serves as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary, Central Military Commission (CMC) Chairman, and President of the PRC. The title used for Xi varies depending on whether he is acting in his capacity as party leader, military leader, or head of state.
THE PRC'S NATIONAL STRATEGY
Key Takeaways
- The PRC's national strategy is to achieve "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation," "China Dream," and "Chinese modernization" by 2049. The strategy determinedly pursues political, social, economic, technological, and military development to increase the PRC's national power and revise the international order to support the PRC's system of governance and national interests.
- The PRC increasingly pushed the narrative that its preferred revisions to the international order are in other countries' interests as well.
- The PRC increasingly views the United States as deploying a whole-of-government effort to contain and suppress the PRC's rise, presenting obstacles to its national strategy.
- PRC leaders are expanding domestic efforts to develop new capabilities for advantages in competition and maintain independent supply chains and strategic stockpiles in the face of Western efforts to derisk supply chains.
The PRC characterizes its view of strategic competition in terms of a rivalry among powerful nation states as well as a clash of opposing ideological systems. PRC leaders believe that structural changes in the international system and an increasingly confrontational United States are the root causes of intensifying strategic competition between the PRC and the United States.
The PRC's strategy entails deliberate and determined efforts to amass, improve, and harness internal and external elements of national power that will place the PRC in a "leading position" in an enduring competition between systems.
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Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China
