Maxwell Kuhns, Lynx Fellow Ed. Note: As China and the US continue to compete economically, a note on Chinese military technology helps discern the hard power and deterrent conditions that frame the ongoing talks. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been in existence for barely a century; created in 1927, advancements within the last decade have occurred at an intensifying pace.[1]This pace could be attributed to the PLA observing how the U.S fared in the Persian Gulf War; more specifically “the