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Fei-Ling Wang, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was cited in the op-ed article published on Newsweek entitled, "China Is Becoming a Military State."
Read an excerpt:
The amendments to the National Defense Law will have little practical effect, as this particular law—and Chinese law, in general—are of not much importance in the first place. "Like so many other paradigms many use to 'analyze' the People's Republic of China, the Western idea of 'civil-military relationship' just does not apply that much there," Fei-Ling Wang, author of The China Order: Centralia, World Empire and the Nature of Chinese Power, told Newsweek.