Trends in the history of the PLA

After reading through every article in the http://china-defense.blogspot.com, http://www.sinodefense.com and http://www.china-defense.com, I found that China is probably heading the right way. I'll describe it bit by bit.

1. The infantry equipment:
Over 40% of the PLA consists of the army, therefore being the most powerful of them all. However, it is actually receiving little of the funds, most of which goes to the PLAAF and PLAN. Despite the fact that I like the army the most, I'd say that that is probably the right way, the major reason being that most critics say that the PLA is rather up to date in terms of crew training. Besides that, the 1 million Type 63s (improved Chinese AK-47s) are still good to have in modern warfare. There isn't the immediate need to change things. (eg. replace old rifles with Type 88s bullpup rifle)

2. THe air force:
The air force is still fairly primative, despite the fact that China has purchased up to 100 Su-27s and other Russian Planes. The J-10s aren't a match against the new fourth-generation planes, like the F-18 hornet and the Panavea Tornados in terms of weaponry and radar equipment, despite the excellent manourveurability and extreme speed inherited in the MiG series of planes.
Whether the air-force is either inadequete and enough for the current state is really dependant on how you look at it. If you see the air force as if it had to be ready to attack Taiwan, I'd say that it's not enough. But if you look at it in terms of defending China, I'd say that it's quite adequete in guarding air-superiority. Supporting ground troops? Maybe, but the bombers are too much of 1980s technology, and are of limited value compared to the B-52.
The most important thing I think, is to quickly upgrade all J-8s to J-10s within the next 10 years. Early-warning radar planes are also important- CHina currently has none.

3. The navy:
The navy is probably the second most important, because of PLAN's Blue water scheme. It states that the PLAN fleet must increase it's fleet size and technology enough to be able to expand it's operating area right out to the edge of the Indonesian islands to the east, to the north, right up to Siberia and to the South, Malaysia and near Australia. Very high target. But I wonder what Americans might think of it. Maybe they'd start to seriously think that Chinese Nuclear Submarines and destroyer flotillas are going to be their next-door neighbours!! THe U.S. might also think that American troops in Japan, Korea, Philiphines, Wake Island and Indonesia are seriously under threat!

COnclusion:
The PLA is nothing to be scared of, President Bush and the World! It's just that little thing called the 2nd Artillery Corps that you have to care about. They are the only ones that can reach almost any part of the world to nuke you! The rest of them just aren't good enough.