In the Chinese regime’s first official military guidelines under its current leader, Xi Jinping, it shifted its focus to “winning informationized local wars.”
In the new strategy, “Space and cyber domains are described as becoming the ‘commanding heights of strategic competition,’” according to a June 23 report by M. Taylor Fravel, an analyst of the Chinese military, published on The Jamestown Foundation website, a Washington-based think tank.
Under the new changes, information technology will play a larger role “in all aspects of military operations” for the Chinese regime’s military, according to Fravel.
The strategy comes directly from the top. Under it, Fravel states, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Central Military Commission gives guidance “for all aspects of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) combat-related activities.”
Changes like this don’t come often.
The PLA’s new defense white paper, “China’s Military Strategy,” was released in May 2015. The Chinese regime has only issued eight of these strategic guidelines since it took power in 1949.
