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15:23, July 30, 2007 |
China today is ushering in a new rise. In contrast with the emergence of other major powers before, China is seeking a peaceful rise. China's strategic objective is to require its army to stem wars effectively and provide a peaceful external environment for national construction and development. This has determined that the future primary goal of PLA is to seek peace and safeguard peace.
True, this once-technologically backward army is also bent on modernizing itself with the world's state-of-the-art weaponry which gears to the future information war. These moves have caused some people's misunderstanding as well as promotion materials by those with ulterior motives.
As a matter of fact, peace also calls for strength, and this has left this army with a profound, ensuring memory. Half a century ago, when the war flames on the Korean Peninsula swept to the Yalu River, China's leaders also attempted to avert the war, but numerous statements or stern warnings issue by the Chinese government were taken merely as trivial, unworthy "empty bluff and bluster" by opponents. Only till the Chinese volunteers (army) beat back its intruding forces did it display its might and peace finally came. Despite the fact many people deemed that Chinese army had worked wonders militarily in that war, the war cost us too heavy a price from the national strategic point of view – China's economy rehabilitation and construction had to defer and several hundred thousand people lost their lives… When China is in a pressing demand for peace, on no account can the failure to curb war with inadequate power during those days can repeat itself again.
All those who truly know the PLA will the phrase, namely, "the Party commands the gun." If one knows the Communist Party of China, leader of the army and the ruling or leading party in the country, has set forth the concept for building a harmonious world, then it will be easiest thing for us to understand this army: that is, the PLA represent the force of peace!
By Chen Hu, executive chief editor of the World Military Affairs magazine; translated by People's Daily Online.</I>
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