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APPENDIX A - CHAPTER 9<br />

PRC MINISTER OF DEFENSE TRAVEL ABROAD<br />

2001-08<br />

This appendix provides inform<strong>at</strong>ion from the 2002<br />

through 2008 biennial Chinese Defense White Papers<br />

<strong>and</strong> other news media reports concerning travel by<br />

the PRC’s Minister of Defense. Altogether, the two<br />

Ministers of Defense (Generals Cao Gangchuan <strong>and</strong><br />

Liang Guanglie) took 21 trips to 47 different countries.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y visited some countries, such as Russia, more<br />

than once, although some of those visits were to particip<strong>at</strong>e<br />

in the SCO Defense Ministers’ Conference. 1<br />

• January-February 2001: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,<br />

<strong>and</strong> Nepal;<br />

• August-September 2001: Venezuela, Colombia,<br />

Trinidad, Tobago, Cote d’Ivoire, <strong>and</strong> Nigeria;<br />

• March-April 2002: Germany, Greece, Cro<strong>at</strong>ia,<br />

Norway, <strong>and</strong> Romania;<br />

• May 2002: Russia (SCO Defense Ministers’<br />

Conference);<br />

• May 2003: Russia (SCO Defense Ministers’<br />

Conference);<br />

• October 2003: United St<strong>at</strong>es;<br />

• December 2003: Russia;<br />

• March 2004: Pakistan, India, <strong>and</strong> Thail<strong>and</strong><br />

• October 2004: France, Belgium, Switzerl<strong>and</strong>,<br />

<strong>and</strong> Belgium;<br />

• April 2005: Egypt, Tanzania, Netherl<strong>and</strong>s, <strong>and</strong><br />

Denmark;<br />

• September 2005: Russia;<br />

• September 2005: Tajikistan <strong>and</strong> Kazakhstan;<br />

• April 2006: North Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia,<br />

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