During a military parade in early October, Xi Jinping announced a reduction in military force of 300,000 military personnel. People’s Liberation Army Daily recently published a commentary on that reduction.
People’s Daily: Japan Plans to Deploy U.S. Anti-Missile “Sade” System to Contain China
According to Japan’s Kyodo News report, for the first time, Japan’s defense ministry made it clear that the Japanese Self-Defense Force will consider the introduction of the U.S. anti-missile system "Sade."
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Wenhua China
By Weiguang Zhong
There used to be a “Wenhua China” (文化中國). Western scholars such as John King Fairbank have observed and described it. I would like to re-raise the issue and take a look at how China evolved from that to a modern state, a politics-centric state, and later a Party-centric state.
I hope this article can offer people a new angle to re-look at China and re-think its future.
U.S. Assisted in the Return of Former Government Official to China
On December 5, the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced that Huang Yurong, the former Party Chief of the Henan Provincial Highway Administration, turned herself in at the Beijing Airport after 13 years of living as a fugitive in the United States.