BEIJING - Buried in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s 33,000-plus-character political report at the Communist Party’s recently concluded congress is a command to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to be able to win a war over Taiwan.
Mr Xi called on the PLA – the party’s armed wing – to step up its modernisation and intensify training, in order to “shape our security posture, contain and control crises and conflicts, and win local wars”.
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