News Analysis
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently touted the need for a new pattern of war-oriented defense mobilization, with related offices popping up across the country. Experts say this indicates a rise in the party’s warmongering tendencies linked to the pressing crisis of regime collapse.
PLA Daily, a CCP military newspaper, published a commentary by Chen Lixin, the director of the mobilization bureau of Shanghai Command, stressing the urgency to build the so-called “defense mobilization” that “solely exists for war and prepares for war” under the “overall leadership of the CCP.”
The article was published on Jan. 31, the same day on which Luohe city in central China’s Henan Province held a plaque ceremony for the local defense mobilization office….