On April 19, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) dissolved the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Strategic Support Force, which had been operating for over eight years, and the regime created a new Information Support Force. This follows a series of restructuring within the PLA.
The new arm of the PLA is directly headed by the CCP’s Central Military Commission, with a special focus on command and control, information security, and intelligence dissemination. Chinese leader Xi Jinping claimed at the ceremony for the new military branch that the new Information Support Force would play a crucial role in advancing the so-called “high-quality development” of the CCP’s military and in winning modern warfare.
