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As a result, "many Uighurs can not differ Chinese people from Chinese armed forces, they desperately believe they are all the same," he said in an email.

The summary was updated April 2013 and is entitled 'The Diversified Employment of China's Armed Forces,' and states that the role of Chinese Armed Forces is 'to defend and exercise jurisdiction over China's land borders and sea areas.

We will comprehensively enhance the revolutionary nature of the Chinese armed forces, further modernise them and upgrade their performance, and continue to raise their deterrence and combat capabilities in the information age," Li told the National People's Congress.

Xu called the growth of mutual military partnership in recent years, saying the Chinese armed forces value their friendship with the Armenian army.

One might assume that the Chinese armed forces, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), will be at the forefront of its reach into new relationships around the world, inferring the inevitability of the competitive, threatening stance of the United States and Soviet Union that characterized the Cold War.

story) reported that Chinese armed forces entered the area and placed stern restrictions on protester movement in the town.

China was forced to sign the Treaty of Nanking, the major features of which were ceding the Hong Kong Island to Great Britain in perpetuity, opening of five sea ports (Canton, Amoy, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai) for foreign trade and commerce, and paying heavy reparation for the destruction of opium by Chinese armed forces.

We, too, must reinforce our alliance with Japanese and Chinese armed forces and orchestrate tripartite cooperation.

The hawkish verbiage of PLA generals seems part of a deliberate and calculated Chinese deterrence effort, and the periodic provocative acts by the Chinese armed forces reflect a civil-military relationship in which civilian control is loose and hands-off.

The idea of putting the Great Wall, a token of the Chinese armed forces, and the UsAf emblem close together on the same page is symbolic in itself.

To be sure, these developments are essential factors in American security planning, but such an exercise in mirror-imaging about force projection, missiles, advanced aircraft, aircraft carriers, and so forth reflects only a fraction of what is actually happening in the Chinese armed forces.

15) It asserted that "it is the sacred responsibility of the Chinese armed forces to stop the 'Taiwan independence' forces from splitting the country" and warned that "should the Taiwan authorities .

However, China's leaders continue to guard closely basic information on the quantity and quality of the Chinese armed forces.

Moreover, the Chinese armed forces continue to suffer from significant deficiencies in training and recruitment standards.

Celebrating in Tiananmen Square: Chinese armed forces continue their development.