Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People\'s Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, there is no mystery what he wants, first, that China should become a great maritime power and secondly, that the PLA become a world-class armed force by 2050.
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China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China\'s navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the world class goal.
He wants this latter objective to be largely completed by 2035.
Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People\'s Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, there is no mystery what he wants, first, that China should become a great maritime power and secondly, that the PLA become a world-class armed force by 2050