Translation Category: Military
Ge Jun, a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officer and researcher, argues that as U.S.-China tensions worsen, Beijing should pursue confidence-building measures (CBMs) with the United States to improve its security environment. Ge draws on CBMs conducted by the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War to suggest how the effectiveness of such efforts can be maximized, highlighting the importance of private communication channels, ensuring concessions are roughly equivalent, and first exploring other areas of cooperation to build up strategic trust.
In this sweeping analysis of China’s behavior in military crises since 1949, a prominent security analyst argues that Beijing has refined and improved its international crisis management paradigm over time and provides suggestions for future improvements. He argues that China should “closely integrate crisis management, conflict resolution, and opportunity management” as part of its peaceful development.
The CCP Politburo holds “study sessions” on a semi-regular basis, in which an outside academic or government expert leads a discussion on a selected topic. Such sessions are important signals as to what issues the senior leadership finds important. The July 29, 2022 session focused on cultivation of high quality personnel in the military forces to build a “world-class military.”
A chapter covering “strategic deterrence” from the revised textbook by the PLA’s National Defense University (NDU), which serves as an authoritative study reference for senior PLA officers on military doctrine and strategy. This chapter offers insights into the evolution of PLA missions and thinking about how modern technology, military and dual use capabilities, as well as domestic and international developments have shaped the theory and practice of strategic deterrence.
A chapter from the revised textbook by the PLA’s National Defense University (NDU) serves as an authoritative study reference for senior PLA officers on military doctrine and strategy. This chapter offers insights into the evolution of PLA roles, missions, and thinking about military crisis.
This lengthy analysis by a CCP Central Party School researcher argues that in the “face of diverse and complex traditional threats intertwined with non-traditional security threats,” ideological security is a critical component of overall national security. Preserving ideological security has become an increasingly important tasks as Western countries have, according to the author, intensified their efforts to “export” freedom, democracy, and other liberal values to China, with the aim of “overthrowing” the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese socialist system.
An interview with an unnamed official from the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission explains Xi Jinping’s recent regulations on “party building” within the military.