Chinese Military Trumps Diplomacy in Achieving Aims, PLA Says
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China can only achieve its foreign policy aims through a military force capable of winning wars rather than through diplomacy, an editorial in China’s official army newspaper said before the 120th anniversary of a naval defeat to Japan.
The possibility of war on China’s doorstep has increased with more hot spots as “some big countries” stir up trouble in the region and Japanese militarism revives, an editorial in the People’s Liberation Daily said yesterday. Only an army genuinely able to win can act as an effective deterrent, it said.