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ENDNOTES - CHAPTER 2
1. Assessments of the diversity of defense issues now confronting
the PLA can be found in Roy Kamphausen et al, Beyond
the Strait: PLA Missions Other Than Taiwan, Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army
War College, Strategic Studies Institute, April 2009.
2. These numbers are taken from China’s National Defense in
2000, Beijing: Information Office of the State Council, October 19,
2000, p. 14.
3. For an analysis of propagation of “new historic missions”
throughout the PLA, see James Mulvenon, “Chairman Hu and the
PLA’s ‘New Historic Missions’,” China Leadership Monitor, No. 27,
January 2009.
4. See Daniel Hartnett, “The PLA’s Domestic and Foreign
Activities and Orientation,” testimony before Senate Hearing on
China’s Military and Security Activities Abroad, Washington,
DC, March 4, 2009, for analysis of this expansion. Unless otherwise
noted, this discussion draws extensively from his analysis.
5. Zhang Zhaoyin, “Make Ceaseless Efforts to Strengthen
Core Military Capacity Building—Important Experience From 30
Years of Reform, Opening Up,” PLA Daily Online, December 2,
2008.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Yu Jia, “Diversified Military Tasks: Nonwar Military Actions,”
Zhongguo Guofang Bao Online, December 11, 2008.
10. Wang Xingwang, “National Strategic Capability: The
New Leverage Point for Dealing with Comprehensive Security,”
PLA Daily Online, February 12, 2009.
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