(Kanwa news March 03) According to the military scholar, after the Cold War ended, there was once a favorable situation in the large environment of the security strategy where China maintained a peaceful and harmonious relationship with the countries in north Asia, relaxed the tension with those in west Asia, and only concentrated all its effort on those in southeast Asia". However, after the People's Party of India took power, it started to jeopardize this situation advantageous to China and made China face the strategic deterrence possibly from two directions. Therefore, as far as the distribution of the strategic resources is concerned, China now has to deal with the two lines both in the east and the west.

The military strategist believes that under these circumstances, China's military and national defence expenditures have long been at an extra-low level. "In general, there exist three unsuitabilities in the level of our military development and in our preparations for the military struggle". That is the unsuitability for the ever rising international status of China, the unsuitability for the general trend of the new military reform, and the unsuitability for the requirement of winning a partial war that involved modern technology, especially hi-tech.

According to the KWIC, the above trend of thought is quite typical inside the Chinese army. It is, in fact, a direct criticism of Deng Xiao Ping's idea that "the building of national defence should make way for the economic construction". Looking at the questions raised from the Chinese army in recent years on Deng's strategy of "hiding the capacities and abiding the time", it is easy to see that the Chinese army is extremely confused about how to deal with the theoretical heritage of Deng Xiao Ping. The military scholars asked in the relevant publication, "how long will we need to hide our capacities and when will the time come? Should we attempt and accomplish anything?" (Kanwa digest news)

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