People's Liberation Army Daily
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Owner(s) | Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission |
| Founded | 1 January 1956 |
| Political alignment | Chinese Communist Party |
| Headquarters | Fuchengmenwai Street,Xicheng District,Beijing |
| Website | eng |
ThePeople's Liberation Army Daily(Chinese:Giải phóng quân báo;pinyin:Jiěfàngjūn Bào), orPLA Dailyfor short, is the official newspaper of the ChinesePeople's Liberation Army(PLA). Institutionally, thePLA Dailyis the mouthpiece of and speaks for theCentral Military Commission,and in that capacity speaks on the part of the PLA itself. Its editorial line hews closely to that found in theChinese Communist Party's own official newspaper,People's Daily.[1]
History
[edit]ThePLA Dailywas established on January 1, 1956, under the aegis of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Military Commission as the Army's official newspaper. During theCultural Revolution,the publications chief editor was purged in a political struggle, army commanderLin Biao—at the timeMao Zedong's close comrade—was put in charge of the leadership of the publication. The most important editorials of the newspaper were jointly published byPeople's DailyandRed Flagtogether with its own staff from 1967 to 1978, becoming thus the so-called "Two newspapers and one journal" (Lưỡng báo nhất khan), directly representing the highest voice of Chinese Communist Party.[citation needed]
The PLA Daily is owned and operated by thePolitical Work Department of the Central Military Commission,until 2016 thePeople's Liberation Army General Political Department,and its staff and correspondents mostly come from the press bureaus of the army's service branches and theater commands nationwide.[citation needed]
Editorial line
[edit]The paper generally covers news stories relating to the PLA and other military affairs, while projecting the voice of the military into the public policy realm for primarily domestic consumption. In August 2010, an editorial suggested that Chinese military strategy was out of date, and that China must "audaciously learn from the experience of the information cultures of foreign militaries", along with modernization and open procurement.[2]
ThePLA Daily,while officially serving as the voice of the military, does not stray far from the Party's own messaging when it comes to foreign policy. "There is a strong correlation between foreign policy rhetoric in the—CCP's civilian voice—thePeople's Daily—and its military voice—thePLA Daily",writes scholar of strategyAlastair Iain Johnston.[3]
The appearances of the pet policy initiatives of Chinese leaders in the pages ofPLA Dailyare often taken by scholars as an expression of those leaders' strength in the military. Scholars with theStrategic Studies Instituteof theU.S. Army War Collegecites the vast number of appearances of propaganda related to the "scientific development concept"—promulgated by Party leaderHu Jintao—as evidence that Hu's "influence on certain areas of the PLA's development since 2004 has been substantial."[4]
References
[edit]- ^Swaine, Michael D. (Summer 2012)."Chinese Leadership and Elite Responses to the U.S. Pacific Pivot"(PDF).China Leadership Monitor.Hoover Institution.
- ^Blanchard, Ben (2010-08-15)."China paper warns military thinking outmoded".Reuters.Retrieved2010-08-17.
audaciously learn from the experience of the information cultures of foreign militaries,
- ^Iain Johnston, Alastair (Spring 2013). "How New and Assertive is China's New Assertiveness".International Security.37(4). MIT Press: 7–48.doi:10.1162/ISEC_a_00115.S2CID57558678.
- ^Roy Kamphausen; David Lai; Travis Tanner (2014).Assessing the People's Liberation Army in the Hu Jintao Era(PDF).Strategic Studies Institute.p. 151.
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