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1. China’s National Defense 2008, Beijing, China: Information
Office of the State Council, January 2009. Moreover, for the first
time a military entity held a press conference to officially launch
the white paper. On January 20, 2009, Senior Colonel Hu Changming
of the recently established Ministry of National Defense
Information Office briefed the media on the contents of the document.
For more on this new office, see Matthew Boswell, “Media
Relations in China’s Military: The Case of the Ministry of National
Defense Information Office,” Asia Policy, Vol. 8, July 2009, pp.
97-120.
2. Paul H. B. Godwin, “Change and Continuity in Chinese
Military Doctrine, 1949-1999,” in Mark A. Ryan, David M. Finkelstein,
and Michael A. McDevitt, eds., Chinese Warfighting: The
PLA Experience since 1949, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003, p.
24. For key works of scholarship on Chinese doctrine, see other
writings by the same author. See also James Mulvenon and David
Finkelstein, eds., China’s Revolution in Doctrinal Affairs: Emerging
Trends in the Operational Art of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army,
n.p.: n.d.; Yao Yunzhu, “The Evolution of Military Doctrine of
the Chinese PLA from 1985 to 1995,” The Korean Journal of Defense
Analysis, Vol. 7, Winter 1995, pp. 57-80; and Georges Tan Eng Bok,
“Strategic Doctrine,” in Gerald Segal and William T. Tow, eds.,
Chinese Defense Policy, Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Chicago
Press, 1984, pp. 3-17.
3. There can be a time lag during a leadership succession of at
least several months before the new paramount ruler assumes the
chair position on both of the CMCs. On one occasion, this situation
dragged on for considerably longer. For details, see Andrew
Scobell, “China’s Evolving Civil-Military Relations: Creeping
Guojiahua,” Armed Forces and Society, Vol. 31, No. 2, Winter 2005,
pp. 229-230.
4. For more discussion of military strategic guidelines, see David
M. Finkelstein, “China’s National Military Strategy: An Overview
of the Military’s Strategic Guidelines,” in Roy Kamphausen
and Andrew Scobell, eds., Right-Sizing the PLA: Exploring the Contours
of China’s Military, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute,
U.S. Army War College, 2007, pp. 69-140. The quotes are on pp.
82 and 95.
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