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"China’s president, Xi Jinping, has signed legal orders allowing a trial of
military operations beyond China’s borders amid heightened tensions over claims
by China’s foreign ministry that the Taiwan Strait is Chinese territorial
water.
Official state media reports published this week were light on detail but said
Xi had signed orders announcing trial outlines on “military operations other
than war”. It said the trials would begin on Wednesday.
A subsequent report from the Global Times, a state-backed nationalistic
tabloid, said the unpublished outlines would provide a legal basis for China’s
People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to “safeguard China’s national sovereignty,
security and development interests”. They would also allow military missions
around disaster relief, humanitarian aid and peacekeeping, it said.
The legal changes would allow troops to “prevent spillover effects of regional
instabilities from affecting China, secure vital transport routes for strategic
materials like oil, or safeguard China’s overseas investments, projects and
personnel”, the report said.
Some analysts said the move appeared to mimic Vladimir Putin’s labelling of
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “special military operation”.
Russia’s invasion has raised fears in Taiwan, which Beijing claims is a Chinese
province that it has not ruled out “reunifying” by force. Taiwan – formally the
Republic of China (Taiwan) – maintains it is a sovereign state."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
