A younger generation of Chinese military leaders

New York Times:



The United States is the enemy

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The Pentagon is worried that its increasingly tense relationship with the Chinese military owes itself in part to the rising leaders of Commander Cao’s generation, who, much more than the country’s military elders, view the United States as the enemy. Older Chinese officers remember a time, before the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 set relations back, when American and Chinese forces made common cause against the Soviet Union.

Theyounger officers have known only an anti-American ideology, which casts the United States as bent on thwarting China’s rise. Read more at www.nytimes.com

 

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