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PLAN
People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is the naval arm of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the military of the People's Republic of China. Until the early 1990s, the navy performed a subordinate role to the PLA land forces. The strategy of the PLAN was a combination of Maoist guerrilla warfare and the Soviet young officers school.
In recent years, the PLAN has become more prominent owing to a change
in Chinese strategic priorities. The possibility of a massive land attack by the Soviet Union has receded, and the new strategic threats
include conflict with the United States or a resurgent Japan in areas such as Taiwan or the Spratly Islands.
See also: Liu Huaqing
Plans for aircraft carrier
As part of its overall program of naval modernization, there has been
interest on the part of PLAN in building or acquiring an aircraft carrier. However the carrier has appeared to have been placed in a lower priority than other efforts to upgrade its aircraft and smaller ship forces.
Most naval analysts believe that, without significant modernization in other areas of its military, a PLAN aircraft carrier would be militarily useless and would take resources away from other parts of the military. The main target of PRC military interest, Taiwan, is within range of Chinese land aircraft and the PRC's main focus in case of a conflict over Taiwan would be sea denial rather than power projection. This assessment appears to be shared by the Chinese military and political leadership.
See: Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag
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China, People's Republic of | China, the People's Republic of | Communist China | ISO 3166-1:CN | Military of Namibia | Namibia/Military | P.R.C. | PROC | People's Republic of China | Peoples' Republic of China | Peoples Republic of China | Peoples Republic of China | Red China | The People's Republic of China | The Peoples Republic of China
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Plan
trinhmaithu@yahoo.com - October 24th, 2004
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Plans prescribe(ra lenh/bat buoc)proposed methods of moving towards or achieving one or more objectives or goals. Often structured, plans can occur in projects, diplomacy(tai ngoai giao), careers, economic development, military campaigns(chien dich quan doi) or in the conduct of some business(dao duc cua nha quan ly). The term planning implies the working out of sub-components( tieu cau thanh) in some degree of detail. Broader-brush enunciations(su phat bieu) of objectives may qualify as metaphorical(an du) road maps. Methodology The discipline of planning has occupied great minds and theoreticians. Concepts such as top-down planning (as opposed to bottom-up planning) reveal similiarities with
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