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| Chinese leaders must keep PLA under the thumb, or.... SCMP photo |
Further to the more sanguine assessment on the likelihood of Sino-Japanese war by Trefor Moss,
here, yesterday's article in the
South China Morning Post --
Chinese leaders must keep a brash and reckless PLA in check - or risk war -- points to the danger of miscalculation leading to a Japan-China war, because of the poor control of China's armed forces by the civilian political forces. [
pdf here, if the above link not accessible]
And, same day, Frank Ching -- a long-term and reliable observer of China -- echoes the point, in
A garbled foreign policy does China no good. [
pdf]
Worrying stuff, living as we do in the heart of the region....
