Airmen assigned to a surface-to-air missile brigade of the air force under the PLA Southern Theater Command practice loading missiles onto a launching vehicle during a combat readiness field training exercise on December 30, 2021. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Gao Lei) While China has made remarkable strides toward developing the “three superiorities,” information, air, and maritime dominance, required for military parity with the United States, several critical capabilities remain conspicuously absent from the People’s Liberation Army. These gaps include limited global range, lagging nuclear capabilities, weak joint-operations capacity, the absence of reliable allies, no warfighting experience, poor interservice integration, and the pressure of an accelerating political timeline. Taken together, these gaps represent fundamental limitations that could determine the outcome of any major conflict in the Indo-Pacific…
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