Xi Jinping orders generals to get with the program when conducting ‘military diplomacy’

Special to WorldTribune.com

By Willy Lam, EastAsiaIntel.com

President and commander-in-chief Xi Jinping has told generals of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to abide by the instructions of the party leadership when waging “military diplomacy.”

Xi Jinping at ceremony in Beijing last year. / Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters
Xi Jinping at ceremony in Beijing last year. / Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters

The policy-setting Central Military Commission (CMC) convened in late January a rare national conference on PLA-related diplomacy. Xi told senior generals as well as dozens of military attaches based in Chinese embassies around the world that the generals and attaches should improve the tone and quality of their participation in foreign affairs.

Xi, who is CMC chairman, told military personnel to “unswervingly uphold the party’s absolute leadership over military diplomacy.”

Xi added that PLA officers active in foreign policy must “resolutely implement the policy directives of the party leadership and the CMC, and that they must resolutely uphold a correct political orientation when they undertake observations, considerations and operations regarding [diplomatic] issues.’

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