China`s Growing Military Capability in Search of a Strategy

Abstract

China`s rapid military modernisation in the past decade has raised concern over when and how China will use its military power in the future. There is no definite answer to this concern. However, the new course in Taiwan, urgent non-traditional security issues, the domestic agenda for re-allocating resources to development of a ‘harmonious society’, and the looming economic crisis could shape China`s foreign policy goals so that it continues the engagement approach adopted in the past decade.