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Whatever maybe said about the economic slowdown in China, the Chinese military are definitely most formidable. If you cannot argue with your banker neither can you overlook the barrel of the gun. It is particularly alarming that China is now taking steps to formally reorganise the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from seven military regions to five battle zones. A fort is being built which President XI Xinping said in another statement, “and wins modern wars.” Since Mao Zedong’s northern army created Red China, the Chinese forces have always won wars. Now branches of the PLA would be unified under one command. The Communist party of China will hold the military in its grip. Last September, the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender was commemorated and China marked the occasion adding new units and cutting through fortress to make the PLA efficient. It is evidently against Japan which inflicted great torture on the Chinese during World War II.

China’s military regions were reorganised in 1985 to tackle Soviet Russia. Today Beijing is swayed by the turbulent waves of the South China and East China seas. Besides, Sinjiang in the north east mutinous. The Chinese military have been spiked up especially as the US is moving into the coastal waters. Chinese policy is said to be defensive-but it is really as aggressive as Louis XIVth’s defensive policies. US shift hugging the borders of artificial islands in the unquiet Pacific. US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has said that the Pentagon has plans to step up arms spent in fiscal 2017 with its eyes on Chinese bayonets. With Asia-Pacific geopolitics getting erratic, alliances may fracture.

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