The China Military Power Report (abbr. CMPR), officially the Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China, is an annual report produced by the United States Department of Defense for the United States Congress that provides estimates, forecasts, and analysis of the People's Republic of China (PRC) military and security developments for the previous year.[1][2] An unclassified form of the congressionally-mandated report is published publicly. The unclassified CMPR represents the most detailed, publicly-available source of information on the Chinese military.[3]
The CMPR, submitted by the Secretary of Defense on behalf of the Department of Defense, is separate from and not be confused with similarly-named publication by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) 2019 China Military Power, which, along with its sister threat reports on the militaries of North Korea, Iran, and Russia, was intended to continue the legacy of DIA's annual Soviet Military Power publication which ended after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.[4]
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:1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China (PDF). Arlington, VA: United States Department of Defense. 2023.
- ^ "Unpacking the Pentagon's 2022 China Military Power Report – DOD Officials Speak at American Enterprise Institute". United States Department of Defense. 8 December 2022.
- ^ China Military Power: Modernizing a Force to Fight and Win (PDF). Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C.: Defense Intelligence Agency. 2019. pp. IV.