The complete run of the Pentagon's congressionally-mandated annual assessment of China's armed forces — every edition from the first in 2000 through 2025, hosted here as PDFs.
Every year the U.S. Department of Defense delivers a report to Congress on the state of China’s military — its full title is the Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China, and most people just call it the China Military Power Report. Congress mandated it in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, so there is one for nearly every year since. It is the single best unclassified, official read on where the People’s Liberation Army actually stands — its nuclear expansion, the navy’s shipbuilding, missile forces, space and cyber, and the Taiwan question — written by the people whose job is to watch it.
I’ve collected the complete set here so you don’t have to hunt them down one broken government link at a time. Every document is a PDF hosted on our own servers — nothing here phones home to a third party. They’re the primary-source material behind the war with China threat page.
A few notes on the set. There is no 2001 edition — the first report came out in June 2000 and the next in July 2002, and the report has run annually since. The title has also changed over the years: the early editions (2000–2009) were titled Military Power of the People’s Republic of China; from 2010 on it became Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China. Each report is dated to its release year and largely covers the prior year’s developments. Newest first.
