Arms-production capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region

The views expressed here are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Australian government or the Department of Defence. [...] First, it provides a viii arms-production capabilities in the indo-pacific region quantitative assessment of national self-reliance in arms production in the region in terms of the relative size of arms companies and the proportion of domestic weapon systems in total arms procurement. [...] (ATT) and the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA)—focus mainly on control of the arms trade and regulating the flow of weapon systems. [...] This indicator complements the first one to the extent that the domestic arms industry is the major implementor of a country’s self-reliance policies and the direct bene ficiary of the government’s investment. [...] The PLA is the main cust omer for the arms companies: the total value of arms sales of the top Chinese 40 The Chinese government classifies the China Academy of Engineering Physics—a nuclear weapon research institute—as an arms industry corporation (军工集团, jungong jituan), but it is not an arms company according to SIPRI’s definition.