China’s National People’s Congress in 2018: Defence Budget Increase and Veteran Affairs

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (03) ◽  
pp. 99-107
Author(s):  
Nan LI
Keyword(s):  
Military Veterans ◽  
Professional Role ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
Veteran Affairs ◽  
Defence Budget ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
People's Congress ◽  
Budget Increase

Restructuring and downsizing of China’s military, its counter-corruption drive and improved supervision, its focus on its professional role and its limited goals may help optimise the use of the defence budget approved recently by the National People’s Congress (NPC). Similarly, the NPC’s decision to establish a Ministry of Veteran Affairs to resolve grievances of military veterans may enhance social stability and boost morale in the People’s Liberation Army as well as help Xi Jinping to consolidate power.

scholarly journals Laser Challenge of China

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 939-942
Author(s):  
Victor V Apollonov
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Chinese Leader ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
The Military ◽  
People's Congress

Chinese President Xi Jinping, at a meeting with delegates of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) during the last session of the National People's Congress (NPC), demanded the introduction of scientific discoveries and innovative technologies in the army. Xi Jinping noted that new technologies are the key to modernizing the Armed Forces. The Chinese leader discussed with the military how to achieve the goals set in the field of national defense and army development and the implementation of the 13th five-year plan for the development of the armed forces. It is safe to say that Laser Weapons (LW) are on the agenda of China/1/

The Americans Are Coming!

Worldview ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 16-20
Author(s):  
Donald Kirk
Keyword(s):  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Great Leap ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
Concert Halls ◽  
Summer Palace ◽  
Army Soldiers ◽  
Full Swing ◽  
People's Congress

The Americans are coming—not merely statesmen and diplomats, not just occasional journalists or teams of scholars or family planners or whatever, but almost anyone with enough money to pay for the privilege and accept some of the nuisance of guided tourism through the People's Republic of China. They jostle for space outside the panda pens of the Peking zoo, madly clicking cameras and shouting greetings at one another. They troop through the courts of the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace, mingling with grinning off-duty People's Liberation Army soldiers and hordes of uniformed schoolchildren. They crowd the orchestras of theatres and concert halls, applauding newly revived “revolutionary” operas and dances, often with more spontaneous verve than do the respectfully restrained Chinese around them.The spectacle of Americans in garish, multicolored dress swirling through the lobbies of Peking's halfdozen hotels for foreigners provides a startling contrast to the normal sight of Ma9-suited Chinese bicycling methodically along broad avenues or crowding sidewalks through districts in which tourists until this year were distinct rareties. The Fifth National People's Congress was in full swing in early March when the first batches of American “friends” with no special professional or political affiliations began arriving. By the end of December some fifteen thousand of them had made the tour—a minuscule figure by the standards of virtually any other nation, but a great leap from the tojal of three thousand American visitors in 1977.

Xi Jinping Overhauls the People’s Liberation Army

2016 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 68-78
Author(s):  
Lance L P GORE
Keyword(s):  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Control Structures ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
Power Projection ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
American Model ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Military

The overhaul of the People’s Liberation Army will move it away from its Soviet-style command and control structures towards the American model, which is believed to be more adapted to the new security environment and facilitates long distance power projection to protect China’s far-flung national interest abroad. The Communist Party’s organisational presence is reaffirmed to ensure the loyalty of the military as the Party considers it the ultimate source of its power and final defence of its rule.

19th Party Congress and People’s Liberation Army’s Leadership Reshuffle

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. 40-52
Author(s):  
Nan LI
Keyword(s):  
Political Control ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
Party Congress

Appointing new Central Military Commission (CMC) members and chiefs of People’s Liberation Army services and theatres is to (i) ensure political loyalty by appointing people Xi Jinping knows well and trusts personally; (ii) promote functional and technical expertise-based professionalism; (iii) enhance CMC chair’s political control by reducing CMC size and increasing proportion of political officers in CMC; and (iv) enforce age requirements.

Xi Jinping and the People’s Liberation Army Restructuring

2016 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
Nan LI
Keyword(s):  
Xi Jinping ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
Regional Headquarters ◽  
Joint Operations ◽  
People’S Liberation Army

Restructuring has empowered Xi to control the People’s Liberation Army by dismantling general departments and requiring new Central Military Commission agencies to report to him directly; by separating monitoring agencies from performing agencies to enhance "checks and oversight"; and by dividing powers for "construction" and for "operations" between services and theatres. Restructuring has also divested regional headquarters of responsibility of running army units. This enables theatres to become genuinely multi-service, laying the basis for joint operations.

Xi Jinping's Generals

2014 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Zhiyue BO
Keyword(s):  
Support Group ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Vice Chairman ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
The Military ◽  
Commander In Chief

Since he became commander-in-chief in November 2012, Xi Jinping has promoted altogether 11 generals in three batches. The promotion of the third batch came in the shadow of expelling Xu Caihou, former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission and Politburo member, from the Party. In the future, Xi Jinping will have to strike a balance between the anti-corruption campaign in the military and the establishment of a core support group in the People's Liberation Army.

China's Xi will see off threats and rivals

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Political Actor ◽  
Senior Leaders ◽  
State Capitalism ◽  
Content Type ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
High Level

Subject Scenarios for a coup against President Xi Jinping. Significance The COVID-19 pandemic has damaged President Xi Jinping’s image, prompting speculation that rivals could seek to topple him. There is no sign of dissent among other senior leaders, but coups are an endemic feature of authoritarian systems and so cannot be ruled out. Impacts A violent power grab would be almost impossible unless China were to fall into total disorder. The People’s Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party, would be a key political actor in any leadership dispute. High-level purges weaken the ruling party’s legitimacy by undermining its claim to infallibility. A radical new direction is unlikely under a new leader; state capitalism, overseas acquisitions and assertive foreign policy would continue.

China's Political Outlook: Xi Jinping as a Game Changer

2015 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongnian ZHENG ◽  
Gang CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
People's Liberation Army ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
People’S Liberation Army ◽  
Full Power ◽  
Game Changer

President Xi Jinping gave the directives to investigate Zhou Yongkang and Xu Caihou, breaking the immunity of Politburo Standing Committee members and Central Military Commission leaders from anti-graft probes. Xi has consolidated the once-fragmented power to himself by heading several newly established leading small groups. He has also rolled out many socioeconomic and political reform tasks long obstructed by vested interests. Xi's full power consolidation heavily relies on his control of the People's Liberation Army.

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