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the CMC level. A pattern started to emerge. Jiang and Hu continued
this, as they had little personal contacts in the PLA prior
to their assumption as the commander in chief. According to my
research in Beijing over the years, normally the CMC presented
a list of a few candidates for the chair to choose one from. It is
not that Jiang or Hu did not make personal nominations, but the
professional inputs from the CMC make the majority of personnel
decisions.
11. Politburo member Zhou Yongkang (China’s public security
chief) revealed that in 2004 over 80,000 such protests occurred.
During the next year, the number went up to 100,000. But since
2007, no such figures have been published.
12. Sun Liping (孙立平), “中国社会结构转型的中近期趋势与
隐患” (“Trends and hidden dangers in China’s social structure in
transition”), 战略与管理 (Strategies and Management), No. 5, 1998,
pp. 1-17.
13. Murray Scott Tanner, “How China Manages Internal Security
Challenges and its Impact on PLA Missions,” in Roy Kamphausen,
David Lai, and Andrew Scobell, eds., Beyond the Strait:
PLA Missions Other Than Taiwan, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies
Institute, U.S. War College, 2009.
14. Gerald Segal, “China and the Disintegration of the Soviet
Union,” Asian Survey, September 1992.
15. Major General Zhang Weibing (张卫兵), “构建和培育当
代革命军人核心价值观之我见” (“On cultivating core values of
contemporary soldiers”), 中国军队政治工作 (Political Work in Chinese
Military), No. 7, 2008, p. 70.
16. Ray Huang, 1587, A Year of No Significance, New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, 1981.
17. This referred to a series of secret meetings between Zeng
Qinghong and Su Zhicheng, a good friend of Lee’s son, in Hong
Kong that paved the way for Wang/Gu talks in Singapore in
1993. Su Chi (苏起), 危险边缘:从两国论到一边一国 (Brinkmanship:
From the two-state thesis to one country on each side), Taipei,
China: Bookzone 天下远见出版有限公司, 2004, p. 12.
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