But what's in store? The PLA is slowly but surely taking over the reins of power in China with an aggressiveness that's making the world squirm.
A senior Chinese general whose father was once President and heir apparent to Mao Zedong has accused Communist Party leaders of “betrayal,” and urged them to allow more open debate within the Party in an example of a senior military figure speaking out on domestic politics.
Gen. Liu Yuan, Political Commissar of the People’s Liberation Army’s General Logistics Department, called for China to reject foreign political models and to embrace China’s military heritage in a preface to a book of essays compiled by a left-leaning intellectual friend.
“Today, too many self-proclaimed ‘pacifists’ are opposed to war!” he said. ”Military culture is the oldest and most important wisdom of humanity,” he went on. “I just want to say, warfare and people in warfare are very glorious, great, mournful… we must all respect them.”
Several other serving and retired Generals have spoken and written in bombastic terms about China’s history, its military modernization and doctrine.
This is the psyche of the future rulers, the military hawks of a so called 'emerging China'. Expect conflicts with their neighbors to increase manifold!
