The crew of a China Type 96 tank. File photoBEIJING, Jun 14 China's non-military military action regulations come into effect on Wednesday, which analysts say will allow the Chinese military to secure China's vital transportation routes for strategic resources and also protect Chinese investments and projects outside the PRC. Earlier, Xinhua News Agency reported that Chinese President Xi Jinping, who also holds the position of chairman of the Central Military Council of the PRC, signed an order to promulgate a set of trial regulations on military non-military activities.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry called US pandering to Taiwanese separatists a threat to peace «The provisions are aimed at protecting the lives and property of people, the sovereignty, security and development interests of the country, world peace and stability in the region. The set of provisions, consisting of 6 chapters and 59 articles, will serve as a legal base for military operations of a non-military nature and will enter into force on June 15, 2022,» the agency noted. The Chinese edition of the Global Times, citing a military expert from China who wished to remain anonymous, writes that these provisions will provide a legal basis for the Chinese troops to carry out tasks such as providing disaster relief, humanitarian missions and peacekeeping operations, as well as the tasks of «protecting China's national sovereignty, security and development interests.» By carrying out these operations abroad, in some cases, Chinese troops will be able to prevent the impact of regional instability on China, ensure safety of vital transport ways for strategic resources such as oil, or to protect Chinese foreign investments, projects and personnel,» the publication writes, citing analysts. >Chinese defense minister urges US to avoid conflict and confrontationThe American broadcaster Radio Free Asia, funded by the US government, notes that these provisions «raise fears» that Beijing may allegedly prepare for a «special operation» not classified as military action against Taiwan. Official relations between the central government of the PRC and its island province were interrupted in 1949, after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, defeated in a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party, moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation.
