By Sam Roggeveen*
For most of my career, first as an analyst in Australia’s intelligence community and then in the world of think tanks, I have watched and written about the modernisation of China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). On every step of that journey, China has offered surprises. In fact, my experience in both the intelligence community (which, it should be emphasised, is now 17 years past) and open-source PLA analysis is that the pace of change and scale of ambition are generally underestimated. (From: The Interpreter. The Lowy Institute.)
