Comparison of US and Chinese Military Armed Forces

Table comparison between the US and Chinese Military as for 2018
Official nameArmed Forces of the United StatesPeople's Liberation Army (Chinese: 中国人民解放军)
Service BranchesU.S. Army

U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. Navy
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Coast Guard

 PLA Ground Force

PLA Navy
PLA Air Force
People's Liberation Army Rocket Force
People's Armed Police

Supreme CommandDepartment of DefenseCentral Military Commission
LeadershipCommander-in-Chief: President Donald Trump

Secretary of Defense: James Mattis
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: General Joseph Dunford

 Chairman of the Central Military Commission: Xi Jinping

Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission: Air Force General Xu Qiliang
Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission: General Zhang Youxia
Minister of the National Defense: General Wei Fenghe
Chief of the PLA General Staff: General Li Zuocheng

Active Personnel1,358,193 approx. (ranked 2nd)2,035,000 approx. (ranked 1st)
Budget$706 billion (FY18) (1st by total expenditure, 11th as percent of GDP)$175 billion (FY18) 1.177 Trillion Yuan (2018) (ranked 2nd)
Percent of GDP3.1% (2018 est.)1.5% (2018 est.)
Nuclear Arsenal5,113 warheads (ranked 2nd.)250 warheads (ranked 4th.)
Major Wars and Events American War of Independence (1775–1783)

Early national period (1783–1812)
War with Mexico (1846–48)
American Civil War (1861–1865)
Post–Civil War era (1865–1917)
Indian Wars (1865–1870)
Spanish–American War (1898)
Philippine–American War (1899–1902)
Banana Wars (1898–1935)
Moro Rebellion (1899–1913)
World War I (1917–1918)
World War II (1941–1945)
Cold War (1945–1991)
Korean War (1950-1953)
Vietnam War (1965–1973)
Gulf War (1991)
Kosovo War (1999)
War in Iraq (2001–present)
War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Iraq War (2003–2010)

 Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang (KMT) as the Chinese Red Army. (1927–1949)

World War II against the Empire of Japan. (1937–1945)
Yangtze Incident (the battle against British warships on the Yangtze River. (1949)
Reclaiming of Tibet (1950–1951)
Korean War (Under the banner of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army). (1950–1954)
First Taiwan Strait Crisis. (1954–1955)
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis at Quemoy and Matsu. (1958)
Sino-Indian War. (1962–1962)
Border skirmishes with India.(1967)
Vietnam War (over 320,000 Chinese soldiers served in North Vietnam throughout the war). (1965–1970)
Sino-Soviet border conflict. (1969 to 1978)
Battle of the Paracel Islands. (1974)
Sino-Vietnamese War. (1979)
Border and naval skirmishes with Vietnam. (1986, 1988)
Tiananmen Square protests (1989).
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis. (1995–1996)
PLA Control of Hong Kong's Military Defense (1997)
PLA Control of Macau's Military Defense (1999)

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