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NPR 2008-09-22

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AP 2012-06-04

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This is the ninth defense white paper issued since 1998. The white paper advocates an active defense strategy and is supposed to further demonstrate the increasing transparency of the Chinese military. CCTV's Zhong Shi joins me in the studio to break