People's Liberation Army

The Mahalo Top 7

1. Official Site: PLA English Daily
2. Wikipedia: People's Liberation Army
3. Global Security: Military: China References  
4. Sinodefense: Chinese Defense Today 
5. World Defense Review: "Pandas in the Heart of Darkness..." (October 25, 2007)
6. Asia Times: "US Puzzles Over China's Military Might" (February 9, 2007) 
7. Google News: People's Liberation Army

People's Liberation Army Recent News

• Yahoo! News: People's Liberation Army
• IranPressTV: China holds live-fire war game (November 2, 2007)
• The Hindu: "Chinese Army launches electromagnetic war game" (October 28, 2007)
• People's Daily: "China to Require Military Pilots to Pass Foreign Language Exams" (October 26, 2007)
• New York Times: " China Steps Up Military Focus on Taiwan" (October 10, 2007)
• China Daily: " Food Revolution in Chinese Army" (October 5, 2007)
• Financial Times: "Chinese Military Hacked into Pentagon" (September 3, 2007)

PLA Background and Articles

Organization and Structure

• Wikipedia: Central Military Commission
• Federation of American Scientists: People's Liberation Army: Introduction
• AUSA: "The People’s Liberation Army in the Land of Elusive Sheen" (September, 2001) (105KB)  

History

• Wikipedia: History of the People's Liberation Army
• The Morning Sun: Living Revolution: People's Liberation Army 
• People's Daily: Timeline of People's Liberation Army (PLA) Over Eight Decades
• Marxists Internet Archive: "Proclamation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army" (April 25, 1949)

Peacekeeping Missions

• China Daily: "Peacekeeping - a rising role for China's PLA" (July 24, 2007)
• China Taiwan Information Center: China's come a long way as a UN peacekeeper (May 29, 2007)
• The Jamestown Foundation: "Beijing's Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations" (May 10, 2005)

Space Program

• Wikipedia: Space Program of China
• AEI: "The Chinese People's Liberation Army and Space Warfare" (October 17, 2007)
• Security Studies Center: "China’s Space Ambitions" (Summer, 2007) (91KB) 
• Space.com: "Scientist Targets 2024 for China's First Moon Walk" (June 20, 2006) 
• CNN: "Timeline: China's Space Quest" (January 5, 2004)

Budget and Expansion

• Wikipedia: Military Budget of the People's Republic of China
• Google News: "China's Hu in Control of Rapidly Modernizing Military" (October 19, 2007)
• Strategic Studies Institute: "Exploring the Contours of China's Military" (September, 2007) (1.42MB) 
• Woodrow Wilson Institute: " The PLA: Should the United States Be Worried?" (December, 2006) (4MB) 
• BBC News: "China to Boost Military Spending" (March 4, 2005)
• National Defense University: "The People's Liberation Army and China in Transition" (2003) (8.85MB) 
• Defense Technical Information Center: "The PLA Looks to the Future" (2000) (618KB) 

Role as a Regional Power

• Wikipedia: China as an Emerging Superpower
• University of Nottingham: "China to Become World's Largest Economy by 2038" (March 2, 2007) (119KB) 
• U.S. Department of Defense: "The Military Power of the People’s Republic of China" (2005) (1.13MB) 
• Air Power Australia: "China's Rise as a Regional Superpower" (May 19, 2005) (9.75MB) 
• The Guardian: "Beijing Ups the Ante in War of Words With Taipei" (October 1, 2004)

People's Liberation Army Videos and Media

• YouTube & Google Video: People's Liberation Army
• Yahoo! Video Search: People's Liberation Army
• YouTube: Chinese People's Liberation Army Military Review (Time 09:45) 
• Google Video: PLA 1999 China 50th National Day Military Parade (Time 08:22)
• YouTube: PLA, China (Time 02:39)

People's Liberation Army Images

• International Institute of Social History: PLA Propaganda Pages 
• Google Image Search: People's Liberation Army
• Yahoo! Image Search: People's Liberation Army
• Live Search Images: People's Liberation Army China
• Flickr: People's Liberation Army

People's Liberation Army Blogs and Message Boards

• China History Forum: Training Regiment of the Modern PLA
• TIME China Blog: New Tactics by the PLA
• Redstate: Communist China and CFIUS: “Dropping the Shark”
• Law at the End of the Day: China’s People’s Liberation Army at 80
• New Zeal: Chinese Military to Fight Cyber Wars

People's Liberation Army Timeline

• 1927: August 1, Kuomintang forces led by Zhou Enlai rebel during the Northern Expedition
• 1927: Survivors join rebels of the Autumn Harvest Uprising, and flee to the Jinggang Mountains
• 1927: Under the leadership of Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong, this group becomes the Red Army
• 1934: By the time of The Long March, the Red Army had been organized into larger units
• 1937-1945: During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Red Army joins the National Revolutionary Army
• 1945: The Chinese Communist Party forms the People's Liberation Army and wins the Chinese Civil War
• 1950: November, A modernized People's Volunteer Army intervenes in the Korean War
• 1962: The PLA fights in the Sino-Indian War
• 1979: The PLA fights to a stalemate in the Sino-Vietnamese War
• 1985: Focus shifts from a massive ground force to a smaller, more technologically modern one
• 1989: The PLA is called into action during the Tiananmen Square Protests
• 1990's: The PLA decreases by over a million soldiers, while spending increases significantly

People's Liberation Army Criticism

• Salon.com: Letters: China's Deadly Darfur Games
• Yahoo! News: " British Lawmakers Press China Over Darfur" (October 28, 2007)
• People's Daily: "PLA Rebuffs Criticism of Budget" (March 6, 2007)
• China Daily: "PLA 'Not Involved in Arms Race'" (February 2, 2007)
• BBC News: "Rumsfeld Questions China Spending" (October 18, 2005)

People's Liberation Army Satire and Humor

• Danwei: The PLA Militia Fruit Protection Squad 
• Investor's Business Daily: China's Military Buildup Cartoon
• Cartoonstock: PLA Foreign Policy Cartoon

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