PLA* ON TAKEOFF: FIFTH-GENERATION FIGHTER A. N. BASOV Chief Expert of the Department of Analysis and Long-term Planning of FSUE "Rosoboronexport", candidate of IDV RAS China Keywords:, PLA modernization, advanced multi-purpose fighter, aviation industry, R & D, "Jian-20" An important component of the growth of the integrated power of the PRC is the activation of its foreign policy and the strengthening of its military potential. First of all, this is due to the process of China's emergence as a leading power in East Asia and the intensification of rivalry with the United States in this region**. The latest White Paper, "China's National Defense in 2010," published in March 2011, emphasizes that the PRC "diligently promotes the construction of a harmonious planet characterized by long-term peace and shared prosperity" and pursues a "self-defensive defense policy", taking into account the challenges in the field of international security. The situation in the field of international security is even more complex and complicated (compared to changes in the international situation), " the document says. "Every day, international strategic rivalry over the international order, the complex power of the state, geopolitics, etc. is becoming more acute, contradictions between developed and developing countries, traditional large countries and newly industrial countries with rapidly developing markets, local conflicts are heating up, and regional "hot spots" are constantly making themselves felt."1. In this regard, China intends to "protect strategic opportunities that are important for the country's development, pursue a military-strategic course of active self-defense in the new period "2," promote the modernization of national defense and the army, ... introduce new high-tech weapons, develop a new type of combat forces, and direct efforts to create a unified combat system in the context of informatization " 3. HIGH-TECH LEAP Modernization of the Chinese air Force is co ... Read more