{"id":3842,"date":"2017-12-01T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2023-08-06T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T05:38:02","slug":"other-peoples-air-power-air-power-with-chinese-characteristics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/other-peoples-air-power-air-power-with-chinese-characteristics\/","title":{"rendered":"Other peoples\u2019 air power: Air power with Chinese characteristics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/peter-layton\/\">PETER LAYTON<\/a> |<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Layton\u2019s series on other peoples\u2019 air power has included an examination of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centralblue.williamsfoundation.org.au\/other-peoples-air-power-islamic-states-unmanned-air-force-peter-layton\/\">Islamic State\u2019s use of unmanned aircraft<\/a>\u00a0and the employment of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centralblue.williamsfoundation.org.au\/other-peoples-air-power-air-superiority-without-fast-jets-peter-layton\/\">air power in the Ukraine campaign<\/a>. In this third post, Dr Layton considers the varied influences on China\u2019s approach to air power and it\u2019s focus on multi-domain \u2018firepower warfare\u2019.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In late October President Xi Jinping\u2019s \u201cThought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era\u201d was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/19thcpcnationalcongress\/2017-10\/19\/content_33438132.htm\">written into<\/a>\u00a0the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s Constitution.\u00a0 In some respects Chinese air power follows a similar dictum. Ideas from beyond China are considered, modified and adapted to meet Chinese needs.<\/p>\n<p>In this, the People\u2019s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) long-term development owes much to Soviet and later Russian support, doctrine and arms sales.\u00a0 In some decades though such assistance has vanished initially through ideological differences and more lately over fighter aircraft intellectual property theft (<a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/china-stole-fighter-russia%E2%80%94-its-coming-the-south-china-sea-17087?page=show\">the J-11 saga<\/a>). In these periods, the PLAAF has needed to develop primarily using indigenous resources and in broad terms, this is where the Service finds itself today \u2013 albeit a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasanforum.org\/russia-china-defense-cooperation-new-developments\/\">contract for 24 Su-35s<\/a>\u00a0was signed with Russia in November 2015 with deliveries now underway.<\/p>\n<p>Having only limited access to the latest technical innovations within the global arms market puts the Chinese military aerospace industry and its PLAAF customer at some disadvantage.\u00a0 Even the US finds being able to obtain foreign advanced technology important in the design and manufacture of new aircraft \u2013 the F-35 being the latest example.\u00a0 China\u2019s isolation is however eased somewhat by access to global commercial aviation developments and by cyber espionage.<\/p>\n<p>Please click here to read the full\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/centralblue.williamsfoundation.org.au\/other-peoples-air-power-air-power-with-chinese-characteristics-peter-layton\/\">Other peoples\u2019 air power: Air power with Chinese characteristics<\/a>\u201d\u00a0article published at The Central Blue,\u00a0written by Griffith Asia Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Peter Layton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETER LAYTON | Peter Layton\u2019s series on other peoples\u2019 air power has included an examination of\u00a0Islamic State\u2019s use of unmanned aircraft\u00a0and the employment of\u00a0air power in the Ukraine campaign. 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