China is currently developing its Air Force to defeat the States. The Asian nation bets that it can develop fighters and pilots better and faster than the western nation.
China is currently pursuing new strategies to defeat the United States including the purchase and the developing technologies for its air arm. Scot Harold, an analyst for the California-based RAND, claims that the Asian country is doing everything from purchasing, stealing, copying, and innovating technologies to assure its advantage with the U.S. Air Force.
According to speculators, American military planners may use Harold's study in assessing the vulnerabilities of the United States forces and in analyzing China's perception of its own weakness.
Harold's study is entitled "Defeat, Not Merely Compete: China's View of its Military Aerospace Goals and Requirements in Relation to the United States." He wrote that the People's Liberation Army seeks to compete with the U.S. military, not as a goal in and of itself, but rather as a means to achieving the political goals, defined by the CCP's threat perceptions and policy ambitions, that the Chinese Communist Party sets for the PLA.
In his work, Harold listed the Chinese air force goals that included the defense of Chinese airspace, the prosecution of a conflict over Taiwan, and the projection of power in the East and South China Seas to prosecute its claim to the disputed areas.
Harold claims that China is legally acquiring, developing, copying or stealing new and old technologies to reach its goal. He claimed that Chinese military aerospace power is a mix of legacy capabilities derived from the cold war era that included hardware procured from Russia and Ukraine, copies and knock-offs of Russian airframes produced bu kit or through reverse-engineering, a small but growing number of fourth and fifth-generation fighter-bombers that appear to have been developed based in part on stolen designs for U.S. airframes, advanced, but non-stealthy, ballistic and cruise missiles, and a growing, largely indigenously developed portfolio of space and anti-space capabilities.
He cited China's purchase of the Su-27 fighters from Russia. He claimed that the Asian superpower copied the technologies used in the fighters. He claimed that China reversed-engineered the fighter and produced them locally through the process known as IDAR which means introduce, digest, absorb, and re-innovate.
He also accused China of stealing foreign technologies when foreign purchases are not an option to suit the needs of the PLA.
