According to Xinhua, the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, China’s top legislature, approved the National Defense Mobilization Law on February 26, 2010. The law specifies the following special measures, which should be implemented once the government decides to execute its national defense mobilization:
Source: Xinhua, February 26, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-02/26/content_13057224.htm
At the Third Session of the Eleventh Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Rear Admiral Yin Zhuo asked China not to fall behind on Arctic Ocean exploration.
Both government and business should work toward prohibiting people under age from visiting Internet Cafés, said a Culture Ministry official in response to proposals at the current sessions of the National People’s Congress and the People’s Political Consultative Conference.
In an interview with China Central Television (CCTV), Li Dongdong, Vice Chief of General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), discussed media reform. He said all of the country’s 580 publishers have finished the reform. Within three years, GAPP is to transform the 1,943 newspapers and 9,821 periodicals through merger, restructuring, and suspension.
Luo Yuan, a major general in the People’s Liberation Army, made public remarks at a government conference that the U.S. has knowingly violated China’s core strategic interests in Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang, which amounts to provocation against China. He stated that China should follow Russia’s tit for tat approach and counter the U.S. to show that China also has cards in its hand. Examples include Russia’s deployment of Topol M strategic missiles in Russia and deployment of short-range missiles at Kaliningrad.
Source: China Review News, March 4, 2010
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1012/4/7/4/101247486.html?coluid=1&kindid=0&docid=101247486&mdate=0304002941
Liu Mingfu, a senior colonel in the People’s Liberation Army and author of a new book titled "China’s Dream” reiterated in an recent interview that China must seek to rise to become the world’s number one military power. “We need the military to rise as well as the economy to rise.” “China’s military rise is an inevitable requirement of China’s national interest and an important guarantee when dealing with U.S. containment. China’s military rise is conducive to world peace, but will also help to change the serious imbalance in the world’s military structure.” According to a March 1 survey on the Global Times’ website, over 80% hold that China should seek to become the world’s number one super power.
Source: Xinhua, March 3, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-03/03/content_13087071.htm
People’s Liberation Army Daily called for proactive guidance of the public’s view of war to ensure “the masses, the party, and armed forces maintain a high degree of unity in terms of ideology.” “The Public’s view of war" is an awareness that the masses can widely influence the public’s general knowledge and basic attitude toward war. “Particularly in national defense education activities, the Marxist view of war is an important component to be explained and spread in a comprehensive systematic and lively manner, to help the public have a more scientific knowledge and attitude on war activities, so as to lay a solid foundation for further improvement of the quality of national defense, and for curbing and winning future wars.”
Source: Xinhua, March 4, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-03/04/content_13093575.htm
Yok Mu-ming, Chairman of the New Party in Taiwan said that Taiwan should sacrifice some of its relationships with the U.S. for achieving a better relationship with Mainland China. Yok said the Ma Ying-jeou administration should delay Taiwan’s spending on U.S. weapon purchases and instead use the money for social welfare projects. He claims that it is wasteful to buy U.S. weapons since the China-Taiwan relationship is developing peacefully. Yok said that during the upcoming municipal congress member elections the New Party candidates will speak out loudly about what the Kuomintang candidates dare not say
Source: Global Times, March 1, 2010
http://taiwan.huanqiu.com/liangan/2010-03/730177.html