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44. The website address is www.mod.gov.cn. The author thanks
Greg Stevenson for drawing this to his attention.
45. Address at Center for Strategic and International Studies
delivered by Gen. Xu Caihou, Vice Chairman, Central Military
Commission, PRC, October 26, 2009, available from www.mod.gov.
cn; and personal communications, Washington, DC, Fall 2009.
46. See, for example, Roy Kamphausen, David Lai, and Andrew
Scobell, eds., Beyond the Strait: PLA Missions Other Than Taiwan,
Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College,
2009.
47. Staff Commentator, “重点加强核心军事能力建设” (“Emphasizing
strengthening the building of core military capabilites”).
48. James Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies
Do and Why They Do It, New York: Basic Books, 1989, pp. 5-6, 14-
18. For discussion of this in the context of the PLA and Taiwan,
see Andrew Scobell, China’s Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great
Wall and the Long March,New York: Cambridge University Press,
2003, p. 190.
49. “Editorial Note,” 解放军报 (Liberation Army Daily), May
2, 2009.
50. Major General Wang, born in 1954, joined the PLA in 1974
and the CCP in 1978. He is a veteran of the 1979 Vietnam conflict,
a member of the PLA delegation to the National People’s Congress,
and an author of regularly published articles on military
matters. Biographical data provided by Daniel Alderman of NBR.
51. Liu Xiangyang et al. Quotations are from pages 4 and 5.
52. Mulvenon, “Chairman Hu and the PLA’s ‘New Historic
Missions’,” p. 9.
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