According to China's government, Xi Jinping has signed off on a set of new trial outlines that allow for Chinese 'armed forces operations' that aren't war, and set a legal basis for the PLA to 'safeguard China's national sovereignty, security and development interests'.
With little published detail, Mr Xi's government declared he'd signed off on a set of new trial outlines that allow for Chinese "armed forces operations" that are not war.
Mr Xi's decision to promote and legally legitimise non-war "military operations" has raised eyebrows as it comes just months after. "And after what happened in Ukraine, it sends a very threatening signal to Taiwan, Japan and the surrounding countries in the South China Sea," he said. China recently signed a security deal with Solomon Islands, which caught the US and Australia off-guard.
A Chinese state-owned company is seeking to upgrade an airstrip in the highly strategic South Pacific nation of Kiribati, while in Australia, private Chinese company Landbridge has taken a 99-year lease on the strategically-located Port of Darwin.
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