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enefit from diversion of U.S. attention to countering terrorism.
According to a subsequent article in the PLA’s official newspaper,
the third includes maritime rights and interests. 刘明福 , 程
钢, 孙学富 (Liu Mingfu, Cheng Gang, and Sun Xuefu), “人民军
队历史使命的又一次与时俱进” (“The Historical Mission of the
People’s Army Once Again Advances with the Times”), 解放军
报 (Liberation Army Daily), December 8, 2005, p. 6. See also 杨
毅, 主编 (Yang Yi, chief editor), 国家安全战略研究 (Research on
National Security Strategy), Beijing, China: 国防大学出版社 (National
Defense University Press, 2007, p. 323. For further background,
see Cole, p. 1; James Mulvenon, “Chairman Hu and the
PLA’s ‘New Historic Missions’,” China Leadership Monitor, No.
27, Winter 2009, available from www.hoover.org/publications/clm/
issues/37362924.html.
5. Daniel M. Hartnett, “The PLA’s Domestic and Foreign Activities
and Orientation,” Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic
and Security Review Commission, “China’s Military and
Security Activities Abroad,” Washington, DC, March 4, 2009.
6. 沈金龙 (Shen Jinlong, Commander of a North Sea Fleet
Support Base), “海军非战争军事行动—面临的挑战及对策” (“Naval
Non-Combat Military Operations—Challenges Faced and
Countermeasures”), 人民海军 (People’s Navy), December 1, 2008,
p. 4.
7. “Our economic development generates the need of overseas
resources and markets, and there are hidden dangers in the
security of our development,” explains a Nanjing Army Command
College political commissar, Major General Tian Bingren.
“With the deepening of economic globalization and increasingly
frequent flow of . . . energy sources, an outside local war or conflict
will influence the development and construction of a country.”
田秉仁 (Maj. Gen. Tian Bingren), “新世纪阶段我军历史使命
的科学拓展” (“The Scientific Development of the Historical Mission
of Our Army in the New Phase of the New Century”), 中国
军事科学 (China Military Science), October 2007, pp. 21–27, OSC
CPP20080123325001. Writing in a PLA newspaper, the recently
retired Major General Peng Guangqian—who has served as a research
fellow at China’s Academy of Military Sciences and who,
as an adviser to China’s powerful Central Military Commission
(CMC) and Politburo Standing Committee, has enjoyed signifi-
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