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78. Liu Yongxin, “连锁反应背景下边境防御战役指导” (“Guiduiding principle for defensive campaigns in the border regions under
the background of armed conflicts elsewhere”), 军事学术 (Military
Studies), No. 3, 2003, p. 39. For more analysis on this, see You Ji,
China’s New Diplomacy, Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy,”
in Stuart Harris, Qin Yaqing, and Pauline Kerr, eds., China’s New
Diplomacy: Tactical or Fundamental Change? New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2008.
79. For instance, after Burma shelled inside the Chinese border
and killed and wounded over a dozen Chinese, General Liang
Guanglie, defense minister, told a high level meeting in Kunming
that Southwest China was a key strategic direction and the task
for war preparation was very heavy. PLA Daily, August 29, 2009.
80. Jiang Zemin told Clinton that it was not impossible for
the number of missiles to be reduced. Similar remarks were also
made by former Chinese U.S. Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong, the
Voice of America, November 11, 2008.
81. Major general Peng Guangqian’s remarks in a talk-show
on Phoenix TV, February 4, 2009.
82. For an analysis of Beijing’s dilemma, see Alan Romberg,
“A Confederacy of Skeptics,” China Leadership Monitor, No. 29,
2009.
83. David C. Gompert, “Strategic Context,” in Stuart E. Johnson
and Duncan Long, eds., Coping with the Dragon: Essays on PLA
Transformation and the US Military, Washington, DC: National Defense
University, 2007, p. 21.
84. This is common of China’s Taiwan specialists. See for instance,
Yan Anlin (嚴安林),”Reflection on political positioning
of the Mainland and Taiwan” (“海峡两岸政治定位问题的回顾与
思考”)paper to the 18th Annual Conference on Cross-Strait
Relations (第十八屆「海峽兩岸關係學術研討),Nanjing, August
4, 2009,.
85. Chairwoman Shin-yuan Lai (Minister, Mainland Affairs
Council) made it clear that the Republic of China is an indepen-
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