From Newkerala:
Anaylsis: China bent on stronger military:
China’s Premier Wen Jiabao has singled out defense and military development as areas of strategic importance for the country’s modernization, national security and reunification.
Though Wen highlighted these areas in the waning minutes of his two-hour long “Report on the Work of the Government” delivered at the opening plenum of the National People’s Congress on Saturday, they are clearly a high priority for the central government in 2005.The premier, who is responsible for the daily operations of the central government, ended the section of his report entitled “Improving the Government’s Administrative Capacity and Style of Work” with statements pointing toward greater military might to compliment the country’s rise as an economic powerhouse.
