LONDON 18, Japan's Kyodo News recently reprinted his article , entitled "The People's Liberation Army and U.S. military power has grown rapidly reduce the gap to 15 years " , the article excerpts are as follows:

The article said thatIn addition China has become Asia-Pacific region outside the United States and Russia, the most powerful military force , a decade ago , the strength gap between the PLA and the U.S. up to 40 years , and now the gap between the two has been reduced to 15 years. China's navy in particular. The mid 90s of last century , the Chinese navy is still very backward, than the United States and Japan, between the naval forces of at least 40 years , and now it has been able to carry out military operations in the deep ocean .

The article said that China's rapid development, army building, has caused widespread concern in neighboring countries , and triggered an arms race in the region .

The article points out ,China's military buildup is intended to protect its growing economic influence , which is China's Southeast Asian neighbors in recent years prompted a substantial increase in defense spending to modernize its outdated military equipment, one of the main.

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore study in Chinese military expert Wong Jing said: "In the past few years , the Chinese army, particularly its naval capability has been in rapid development of the state . And this has affected the Southeast Asian countries. China Now the engine of the entire region , the regional economy and further economic integration with China .However, security and military aspects , Southeast Asian countries are trying to boycott China. "

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute 's " arms transfers data " show that , compared with five years ago, between 2005 to -2009 deliveries of weapons in Southeast Asia has nearly doubled , which delivered the weapons to Malaysia increased by 722 percent Meng , Singapore An increase of 146% , an increase of 84% in Indonesia .

During this period, Singapore is following China, India and South Korea after the Asian country 's fourth largest arms procurement .

Huang Jing said ,China already has the most powerful army in the region . He said: " Apart from the United States and Russia, no country in the region can not be more than China's military strength. Ten years ago , China and the United States, a difference of 40 years of military capabilities , and now the gap has been shortened to 15 years. "

The article said that the mid- 20th century, when 90 Chinese Navy lags behind the United States or Japan, whose navy at least 40 years , but now the Chinese Navy has been almost to the high seas and deep water activities. Huang Jing said: "Now the Chinese Navy has been able to enter the waters of the Blue Water . "

In 2009, China has made an unprecedented move - to send naval fleet to the Gulf of Aden near Somalia to escort an anti- piracy task . Clearly, China is supposed to protect its maritime interests , and its power projection to the area and other areas. In addition , the Chinese military is the South China Sea to build a naval base on Hainan Island , China's ballistic missile submarines to accommodate .

The article points out , the Chinese from Taiwan after the crisis began to actively carry out military construction . Today, the Chinese army has been strong enough to extended our focus beyond Taiwan .

This year in March , the Chinese government formally conveyed to the United States, a new national policy that China will be the South China Sea as its "core interests " part of it relates to China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. By the inclusion of the core interests of the South China Sea area , China has made clear that its decision to protect the connection strategy in Northeast Asia and the Indian Ocean maritime interests , which is also China and other countries in the region because territorial disputes .

In recent years, China has announced that its troops will not only protect China's territorial borders , but also to defend China's national interests. This allows other countries in the region has added a sense of uncertainty , because China 's economic interests may as far Malacca Strait, in Africa and the Middle East .

The article said that some ASEAN countries , primarily Vietnam, Malaysia , the Philippines and Brunei, all with the Chinese presence in the South China Sea territorial disputes , especially in resource-rich South China Sea Islands .

As part of confidence-building , ASEAN has been working to improve its 2002 and China has signed the " Declaration on Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea " , but to obtain China's consent is not easy. So far, although the two sides have reached some agreement on cooperation projects , but the two sides even in the implementation of the guidelines on these projects are differences . For example, China oppose any reference to the guidelines , because the Chinese do not want something from that into a bilateral multilateral .

Singapore, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies , China and East Asian security , an assistant researcher Liming Jiang said: " Currently, many Chinese people are worried about the safety of navigation in the Malacca Strait issue , they believe that the U.S. might use the powerful means of blockade of the Strait of Malacca Stop to China 's oil , gas and other goods through the Malacca Strait . "

The article said , existed between ASEAN and China 's问题yes, in recent years, China's fast economic growth has gone beyond the Beijing government of Chuan Tong defense Zhan Lue , so the Chinese can not Mingquedingyi its national Huo regional defense strategy .

In the past,China's defense strategy has focused on maintaining domestic stability and to prevent Taiwan from seeking independence. However, Huang Jing , said: "Now the task of the Chinese army has been completely beyond them , the Chinese already have a military capability. "