The PLA at Home and Abroad: Assessing the Operational Capabilities of China's Military

Kamphausen, Roy; Lai, David; Scobell, Andrew

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“…The strategy seeks to encourage the pooling of resources and collaboration in research and development so that economic and national defense construction may have a common advantage. MCF has evolved from the more restricted approach of CMI to the merger of civil and military industries (Kania and Laskai 2021). A wider range of collaboration between civil and military contacts, a more equilibrated emphasis on military and civil progress, and a transition between simple combination and complete integration of institutions distinguishes MCF from CMI.…”

Section: China's Evolving Conception Of Civil–military Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It became the national military only after the establishment of China in 1949. To advance the military's evolving focus on fighting and winning modern, the PLA made additional retention and recruitment policy changes, military training and education, pay and welfare, and in other areas led by former CMC Presidents Jiang Zemin (1989-2004) and Hu Jintao (2004-2012 (Kamphausen, Scobell, and Tanner 2008). The new regulations released in January 2021 show a commitment to defining officers' hierarchies, improving officers' management systems, and recruiting and maintaining the necessary skills for top performance (Ministry of Defense 2021).…”

Section: Professionalization In the Plamentioning

confidence: 99%

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History and Future Perceptive of Civil–military Relations in China

Usman¹

2022

World Affairs

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This article examines how civil-military relations have changed in China. This is conducted in the context of long-term efforts to make the military more professional and to understand how civilians and soldiers interact today. Current analyses of Chinese civil-military relations have focused on the military's professionalization. However, the recent evaluations do not entirely include the lessons learned from past professionalization phases in the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) history. I focus on the continuity between different events in China's civil and military history by looking at the critical links that made it possible for military professionalization to change what had happened before between the Chinese Communist Party and the PLA. The potential impact of further professionalization of the PLA in contemporary civil-military interactions is also examined.

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Section: China's Evolving Conception Of Civil–military Collaborationmentioning

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Section: Professionalization In the Plamentioning

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History and Future Perceptive of Civil–military Relations in China

Usman¹

2022

World Affairs

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“…However, as its influence in foreign policy increases, it seems more emphasis has been given to the PLA Navy and Air Force, but not ground forces. 37 Therefore, no real need is seen to increase its interactions with Mongolian military.…”

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Asymmetrical Military Socialization

Jargalsaikhan

2012

Armed Forces & Society

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This article presents a small state’s perspectives on military socialization by examining military interactions at political and strategic, operational, and tactical as well as educational tiers. Transnational military socialization creates learning and socializing environments for militaries. However, the transnational military socialization process in Asia has received little scholarly attention, although its nature changed dramatically after the Cold War and 9/11. A small state often enters into asymmetric socialization with major powers. Mongolia presents an interesting case to capture these changes and impacts of transnational military interactions. The Mongolian military internalized Soviet military norms, ideas, and values during its seventy-year military socialization process. Since then, it has been attempting to disconnect from its communist past by internalizing the Western military norms, ideas, and culture even though it is isolated from the Western world. Interactions between Sino-Mongolian militaries over the past two decades have not resulted in any in-depth exchanges of ideas due to political, historical, and cultural factors. In the absence of explicit pressures from these three major powers, today the Mongolia military has consolidated a new identity, similar to a Western military. It has increased its contribution to peace support operations while attempting to disconnect its Soviet past and avoiding absorption from the growing Chinese military initiatives toward Central Asia. At the same time, Mongolia’s military socialization with Russian or American militaries often triggers uncertainty for Chinese security.

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“…Here the main point of focus has been information warfare (IW) operations and doctrine. These scholars also note that 1980-1990s were, roughly speaking, a period of transformation during which new security conditions-represented most visibly by the display of U.S. power during the 1991 Gulf War-trigged a shift toward increased concern with protecting the nation militarily against foreign psychological and ideological threats (Mulvenon, 1999;Perry, 2007;Kamphausen et al, 2010). Like party-state propaganda work, IW represented a potentially continuous, even preemptive, activity, though one which remained primarily military in nature.…”

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Securitizing Culture in Post-Deng China: An Evolving National Strategic Paradigm, 1994–2014

2017

Propaganda in the World and Local Conflicts

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This article examines the emergence and impact of the threat image of U.S.-led globalization on national strategic paradigms in the People's Republic of China. It finds that, beginning in the mid-1990s, internal discussions focusing on national cultural security (NCS) became increasingly influential within elite policymaking circles and directly impacted assessments of comprehensive national security and sovereignty-specifically, how these concepts were to be defined. Other results demonstrate the importance of NCS to institutions and policy frameworks emblematic of the -cultural turn‖ in politics under Xi Jinping. Finally, the article draws parallels between NCS and, within the People's Liberation Army, the evolving doctrine of psychological warfare, hypothesizing that these developments are connected by a shared paradigm uniting strategists within the party-state-army. It concludes that strong consensus concerning cultural security exists at the national level and that, viewed from a historical perspective, -Xiism‖ as an approach to politics and information flow management is grounded in an intellectual and institutional transformation-cultural securitization-which first emerged during the mid-1990s.

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The PLA at Home and Abroad: Assessing the Operational Capabilities of China's Military

Cited by 7 publications

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History and Future Perceptive of Civil–military Relations in China

History and Future Perceptive of Civil–military Relations in China

Asymmetrical Military Socialization

Securitizing Culture in Post-Deng China: An Evolving National Strategic Paradigm, 1994–2014

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