Defense white paper describes new challenges
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April 17, 2013, Wednesday
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CHINA yesterday issued a white paper on national defense elaborating on its new security challenges in peacetime and the use of the armed forces to cope with them.
The document warns that the Asia-Pacific region has become an increasingly significant stage for world economic development and strategic interaction between major powers.
"The United States is adjusting its Asia-Pacific security strategy, and the regional landscape is undergoing profound changes," the paper said.
The paper warns that China still faces multiple and complicated security threats and challenges.
The issues of subsistence and development security and traditional and non-traditional threats to security are interwoven, the document says.
"Therefore China has an arduous task to safeguard its national unification, territorial integrity and development interests," it says.
Military presence
Some country has strengthened its Asia-Pacific military alliances, expanded its military presence in the region, and frequently makes the situation there tenser, the paper says, alluding to the US.
On issues concerning China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, some neighboring countries are taking actions that complicate or exacerbate the situation, and Japan is making trouble over the issue of the Diaoyu Islands, it says.
China advocates a new security concept featuring mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and coordination, and pursues comprehensive security, common security and cooperative security, the paper says.
Besides implementing a defensive military strategy and winning local wars under the conditions of "informationization," the armed forces are employed to effectively conduct military operations other than war and fulfill international obligations, according to the paper.
New changes
"China's armed forces adapt themselves to the new changes of security threats, and emphasize the employment of armed forces in peacetime," the white paper says.
And they will readily respond to and resolutely deter any provocative action which undermines China's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity.
China now has about 850,000 army servicemen in 18 combined corps and additional independent combined operational divisions (brigades), according to the paper.
The PLA Navy has a strength of 235,000 officers and men, and commands three fleets - the Beihai Fleet, the Donghai Fleet and the Nanhai Fleet.
The PLA Air Force now has about 398,000 officers and men and an air command in each of the seven military area commands.
The document warns that the Asia-Pacific region has become an increasingly significant stage for world economic development and strategic interaction between major powers.
"The United States is adjusting its Asia-Pacific security strategy, and the regional landscape is undergoing profound changes," the paper said.
The paper warns that China still faces multiple and complicated security threats and challenges.
The issues of subsistence and development security and traditional and non-traditional threats to security are interwoven, the document says.
"Therefore China has an arduous task to safeguard its national unification, territorial integrity and development interests," it says.
Military presence
Some country has strengthened its Asia-Pacific military alliances, expanded its military presence in the region, and frequently makes the situation there tenser, the paper says, alluding to the US.
On issues concerning China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, some neighboring countries are taking actions that complicate or exacerbate the situation, and Japan is making trouble over the issue of the Diaoyu Islands, it says.
China advocates a new security concept featuring mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and coordination, and pursues comprehensive security, common security and cooperative security, the paper says.
Besides implementing a defensive military strategy and winning local wars under the conditions of "informationization," the armed forces are employed to effectively conduct military operations other than war and fulfill international obligations, according to the paper.
New changes
"China's armed forces adapt themselves to the new changes of security threats, and emphasize the employment of armed forces in peacetime," the white paper says.
And they will readily respond to and resolutely deter any provocative action which undermines China's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity.
China now has about 850,000 army servicemen in 18 combined corps and additional independent combined operational divisions (brigades), according to the paper.
The PLA Navy has a strength of 235,000 officers and men, and commands three fleets - the Beihai Fleet, the Donghai Fleet and the Nanhai Fleet.
The PLA Air Force now has about 398,000 officers and men and an air command in each of the seven military area commands.
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