At this year’s “two sessions,” in addition to the State Council’s 6.8 percent increase in defense budget in the government’s work report, the “two high authorities” also showed goodwill to the military in their work reports, not only by naming the “hot penny” for questioning the number of deaths of border guards in the Sino-Indian border conflict. The report not only named the “hot penny” for questioning the number of deaths of border officers and soldiers in the Sino-Indian border conflict, but also highlighted the number of military-related civil and commercial cases prosecuted and concluded in the past year, as well as the number of military-related cases such as those involving the destruction of military marriages.
Zhou Qiang, president of the Communist Party of China’s Supreme Court, also said that a green channel should be opened for military-related rights protection, and judicial protection should be provided for soldiers in garrisons, etc.
Wu Qiang, an independent political scientist, told Hong Kong‘s Apple Daily that since Xi Jinping came to power eight years ago, the scale of rights protection for retired and retired military personnel has been increasing; the emphasis on protecting the rights and interests of military personnel at this year’s “two sessions” is an important signal to appease the military and boost morale, behind which a greater military struggle may be underway.
Wu Qiang also believes that the fact that the Beijing authorities announced the number of soldiers killed in action only eight months after the outbreak of the Sino-Indian border conflict is related to the issue of appeasing the fallen soldiers, which shows that, in addition to traditional stability maintenance, military stability has also become another problem for Beijing. He believes that the authorities are raising the treatment and honor of the military at this Time in order to strengthen the loyalty of officers and soldiers to the Party and the top leadership.
It is no coincidence that Xi Jinping made his first statement that “the current security situation in mainland China is unstable and uncertain” when he attended a meeting of the military and armed police forces delegation to the National People’s Congress on March 9.
This is the last time Xi Jinping visited the delegation in the current “two sessions”. As in previous sessions, he chose the military delegation.
The Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao commented that in the past, the official mention of “instability and uncertainty”, mostly used in the external economic environment, like Xi Jinping on the 9th so clearly pointed out that the security situation is unstable and uncertain, is rare. At the same time, Xi in his speech on the military preparedness tone is also very urgent, proposed “to adhere to the war to lead the construction, to strengthen the war to build the co-ordination …… of our military construction annual plan arrangements for the work ahead, to the actual grasp, to ensure that the early implementation of the effect”.
The commentary suggests that this may be related to the situation in the South China Sea, Taiwan Strait and the Sino-Indian border.
However, there are also views that although Beijing has been aggressive militarily in recent times, such as taking the initiative to provoke a sovereignty dispute with Japan over the Diaoyu Islands (known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan), frequent warplanes to disturb Taiwan, etc., but Xi’s main purpose is to scare the U.S. President Joe Biden, who has just taken office, and the real will to provoke war is not large, before the 20th Congress, Xi’s main focus is still on domestic, to solve the internal struggles of the Chinese Communist Party.
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