The Civil-Military Challenge in the Chinese Context: What are the Problems? What does the fundamental civil-military challenge – balancing the military’s responsibility to protect the state with the necessity of preventing military overreach – reveal about the evolution of party-military relations in China? This section seeks to examine the key elements and challenges inherent in the delegation an. [...] 35 For example, in December 2000, the members of the 19th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People’s Congress approved the amendment of the “Regulations of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army on the military services of officers in active service.” The new regulations aimed to create clear and uniform requirements for the appointment and removal of PLA officers. [...] Given the usual lack of military experience, the chairman tends to rely on a small group of senior officers who, in practice, run the PLA from their position.44 The scandals involving Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong underscore the persistence of systemic flaws inherent in the organizational structure of the CMC.45 In summary, despite the considerable tasks and resources assigned to the army, the party-s. [...] This lack of warfighting experience has not only resulted in a worrying state of the military’s combat readiness; the “long peace” has also eroded Party control of the military because the absence of engagement has deprived the Party of the opportunity to test the true capabilities – both political and military – of the officer corps. [...] Reforming the CMC is critically important to reinforcing party-military connection since the organization sits at the apex of the parallel party hierarchy and supposedly embodies the Party’s institutional supremacy over the military.63 However, rather than constructing a functioning controlling mechanism, the essence of the reform efforts lies in the concentration of authority and power in the han.
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