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17. China’s National Defense in 2006.
18. Bai Jie and Chang Lu, “China Sends Military Representative
to Attend Fifth Sino-US Strategic Dialogue,” Xinhua, January
17, 2008. “PRC Analysts Consider Attendance of Chinese General
at China-US Strategic Dialogue,” Xinhua, January 17, 2008.
19. Information about the number of attaché offices in 1988
comes from the files of Kenneth Allen, who was assigned to the
U.S. Defense Attaché office in Beijing at the time. In 1998, China
reportedly had military attaché offices in more than 90 Chinese
embassies abroad, and approximately 60 countries had military
attaché offices in China. For information on the number of attaché
offices in 1998, see China’s National Defense in 1998, Beijing, China:
Information Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of
China, July 1998. For a list of the foreign military attaché offices in
Beijing in 1988 and 1998, see Kenneth W. Allen and Eric A. McVadon,
China’s Foreign Military Relations, Appendix B, Washington
DC: The Henry L. Stimson Center, October 1999, p. 95. Based on
correspondence with the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, 100 countries
had attaché offices in Beijing in early 2009.
20. This information is based on correspondence with the U.S.
Embassy in Beijing in April 2009.
21. A list of 135 Chinese embassy websites and 49 Chinese
consulate websites abroad is available from uk.china-embassy.org/
eng/yqlj/zgqtzwslg/t25286.htm.
22. “Chinese Navy over Past Six Decades,” Consulate General
of the People’s Republic of China in Cape Town, available from
capetown.china-consulate.org/eng/zt/navy60/t575981.htm“; China in
Photos—Chinese Navy over Past Six Decades,” Embassy of the
People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Albania, available
from al.china-embassy.org/eng/xwdt/t575287.htm.
23. “People’s Liberation Army Delegation Visits Latvia,” Embassy
of the People’s Republic of China in Latvia, June 14, 2006,
463