List of abbreviations
AD Air Defence
ALL Administrative Litigation Law
APC Armoured Personnel Carrier
ASAT Anti-Satellite Weapon
ASBM Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile
ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations
ASW Anti-Submarine Warfare
AWACS Air Warning and Control System
BMD Ballistic Missile Defence
BRIC Brazil, Russia, India and China
C4ISR Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
CCP Chinese Communist Party
CDIC Central Discipline Inspection Commission
CMC Central Military Commission
CNO Computer Network Operations
COO Country of origin
CYL Communist Youth League
DPP Democratic People’s Party (Taiwan)
DPRK Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
ELINT Electronic Signals Intelligence
ERA
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