The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities recently announced that, starting Aug. 1, military training courses will be added to high school students to implement the fundamental requirement of “strengthening the military. Some experts believe that Xi Jinping has begun to consider war preparations for all people as tensions rise around China.
On April 13, the Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China and the Ministry of National Defense Mobilization of the Central Military Commission jointly issued a “syllabus for military training for high school students. The preamble of the syllabus states that the syllabus was developed to implement the fundamental requirements of “the goal of a strong military” and to strengthen the “national defense reserve force”.
The syllabus stipulates that military training for high school students consists of two parts: basic military knowledge and basic military skills, with a total teaching time of 7 to 14 days, not less than 7 days and 56 hours in total. Among them, basic military knowledge is 24 hours, 12 hours of compulsory training and 12 hours of optional training; basic military skills are 88 hours, 44 hours of compulsory training and 44 hours of optional training.
Basic military knowledge includes the people’s army, modern national defense, military service knowledge, and field teaching, while basic military skills include formation movements, light weapons firing, bomb throwing, tactical movements, basic combat and military sports, health and rescue, and map reading and use, etc.
In Mao’s time, all high school students had to participate in military training. The picture shows high school students in the Mao era.
Xi Jinping releases signals to return to the Mao era
Recently, Xi Jinping has been releasing signals to return to the Mao era, including quietly opening the grave of Mao’s wife Jiang Qing on Qingming Festival.
Mandatory military training for all secondary school students was a feature of Mao’s era as a way to foster xenophobia among Chinese people. With the strong psychological implication that World War III would break out at any moment, the blind patriotism of the Chinese people at that time had reached a perverse level.
With the end of the Cultural Revolution, the participation of secondary school students in military training quietly disappeared. “On the one hand, it is to use the successful experience of Mao’s brainwashing of Chinese people to divert the extreme contradictions at home through propaganda for war preparation; on the other hand, the current tensions in the Indo-Pacific region are heating up, especially in the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan Strait, the Chinese Communist Party’s voice of disturbing Taiwan seems to be getting louder and louder, regardless of whether it dares to fight, the CCP will consider preparing for war.”
Li Yanming believes there are both domestic and international factors that lead the CCP to “strengthen its military.
Domestically, Xi Jinping has frequently stressed the need to prepare for war to the military in recent years. On Oct. 13 last year, Xi inspected the Marine Corps in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, and asked the entire military to “put all their thoughts and energy into preparing for war and maintaining a high state of readiness.”
Earlier this year, Xi signed the Central Military Commission’s Order No. 1 for 2021, issuing a mobilization order to the entire army for training, asking the entire army to “implement the strategic military policy for the new era,” “focus on preparing for war and fighting battles,” and “be ready for war at all times and be able to fight at all times. The mobilization order was issued to the whole army.
Li Yanming quoted Jin Canrong, Xi’s “national mentor” and director of the Center for Foreign Strategic Studies at Renmin University of China, as saying, “He (Jin Canrong) believes that the Chinese Communist Party has dominated the world in four steps: survival, development, dignity and hegemony. Having solved the first three steps, the CCP’s goal is now to compete with the United States for hegemony. Xi Jinping speaks of now being able to ‘level the playing field’ in the world, meaning beyond words that the time is ripe to compete for hegemony.”
Li Yanming said, “From the expansion in the South China Sea, to the pushing of the ‘Hong Kong version of the National Security Law’; from the ‘Belt and Road’, to the ‘Community of Human Destiny’ initiative, and the increasingly assertive ‘war-wolf diplomacy’ and open threats against Taiwan, the CCP has made no secret of its ambition for global domination.”
The International Factor in Xi Jinping’s Desire to Go to War
The CCP’s brutal expansionist behavior has drawn strong international opposition. Starting with the Trump administration, a global anti-communist coalition has gradually formed with the United States at its core, leaving the CCP to prepare for a war with the world.
On March 16, the U.S. and Japanese foreign ministers and defense ministers issued a strongly worded joint statement at the 2+2 talks on the Communist Party’s introduction of the Maritime Police Law. The statement said the CCP’s actions are contrary to the existing international order and pose political, economic, military and technological challenges to alliances and the international community. In light of the damaging impact of the law on the Indo-Pacific region, the United States will fulfill its firm commitment to Japan’s defense under the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty.
On April 4, the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning and five frigates passed through the waters of Okinawa and Miyako Island, Japan, and sailed into the western Pacific Ocean. On the same day, the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier battle group entered the South China Sea through the Strait of Malacca. Defense Department spokesman John Kirby says the U.S. is monitoring Chinese naval maneuvers near Taiwan.
On April 11, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington will keep its commitment to defend Taiwan. He emphasized that the Taiwan Relations Act is a bipartisan commitment, that the United States has an obligation to maintain peace and security in the Western Pacific, and that any attempt to change the status quo by force would be a grave mistake.
On April 15, Biden confidant and former Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) led an unofficial U.S. delegation to Taiwan to strengthen U.S.-Taiwan relations, which was seen as another response to the Chinese Communist Party’s continuous disturbance of Taiwan.
On April 16, U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga met at the White House. After the meeting, the two issued a joint statement in which they pledged to work together to address threats from the Chinese Communist Party and to work together to resolve issues in the East China Sea, South China Sea and North Korea. In addition to the human rights issues in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, the statement expressed a rare concern about the situation in the Taiwan Strait.
This is the first time since 1969 that the U.S. and Japan have focused on Taiwan in a joint statement.
In addition, U.S. President Joe Biden made it clear that he wants to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 this year to focus on the Chinese Communist Party.
“Combining the CCP’s own inflated ambitions and the growing anti-communist developments in the international community,” Li Yanming believes it is not surprising that the CCP is using military training to propagate war preparations and brainwash the Chinese.
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