REGIONAL SECURITY DYNAMICS: PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Keywords:
People’s Republic of China, Communist party of China, White paper, National security, Regional security, Defense strategy, Development strategyAbstract
China's national security strategyChinese military strategy has evolved over the past several decades.From a reliance on Maoist concepts primarily centered on conducting aPeople’s War to focusing on fighting and winning local, informative wars.National security decision-making was largely characterized by theunparalleled authority of the paramount leader: Deng Xiaoping (thechairman of the Central Advisory Committee of the Communist Party ofChina), and Mao Zedong (the first President of the Central Committee ofthe Communist Party of China). The vivid evidence of this was the speechby China's 6th President Hu Jintao at the 18th National Congress of theCommunist party of China (CPC) in 2012. President Hu Jintao pointed outthat China should continue to pursue peaceful development based onMarxism-Leninism and on the theories of Mao Zedong and Dan Xiaoping,for upholding and developing “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.”1
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The essential difference between Maoism and other forms of Marxism is that Mao claimed that peasants should be the essential revolutionary class in China, because, contrary to their industrial working "comrades", they were more suited to establishing a successful revolution and socialist society in China.
"One country, two systems" is a constitutional principle for the reunification of China during the early 1980s. It suggested that there would be only one China, but distinct Chinese regions such as Hong Kong and Macau could retain their own capitalist economic and political systems, while the rest of China uses the socialist system. Under the principle, each of the two regions could continue to have its own political system, legal, economic and financial affairs, including external relations with foreign countries.
People's war, is a military-political strategy first developed by the Chinese Communist revolutionary and political leader Mao Zedong. The basic concept behind People's War is to maintain the support of the population and draw the enemy deep into the countryside (stretching their supply lines) where the population will bleed them dry through a mix of Mobile Warfare and guerrilla warfare. It was used by the Communists against Imperial Japanese Army in World War II and the Nationalist Government in the Chinese Civil War
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