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5. Evan S. Medeiros and Taylor Fravel, “China’s New Diplomacy,”
Foreign Affairs, Vol. 82, Issue 6, November/December
2003, p. 22.
6. Simon Rabinovitch, “The Rise of an Image Conscious China,”
China Security, Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer 2008, pp. 33-47; David
M. Lampton, The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and
Minds, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008, p. 61.
7. Chinese Military Encyclopedia (Zhongguo Junshi Bailiao Quanshu),
Supplemental Volume, Beijing, China: Academy of Military
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8. David Finkelstein and Michael McDevitt, Engaging DoD:
Chinese Perspectives on Military Relations with the United States, Alexandria,
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9. Kristen Gunness, “China’s Military Diplomacy in an Era of
Change,” presented at National Defense University’s Pacific Symposium,
June 2006, p. 2.
10. “China’s Military Diplomacy Forging New Ties,” Xinhua,
October 28, 2002. Emphasis added.
11. Finkelstein and McDevitt, p. 10; Liang Guanglie, “Chinese
Military Foreign Diplomacy Is in Step with the Times,”
Jiefangjun Bao in Chinese, December 23, 2006, available from
www.pladaily.com.cn/site1/big5/.../content_1594931.htm. In his article,
Liang states that military foreign diplomacy is, from beginning
to end, launched under the correct leadership of the CCP
Central Committee and the CMC.
12. Chinese Military Encyclopedia, pp. 280-282.
13. Ibid.
14. Gunness, p. 3.
15. China’s National Defense in 2004, Beijing, China: Information
Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China,
December 27, 2004.
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