Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping has asked the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops to prepare for war amid border row with India, according to reports on Wednesday.
Jinping has called on Chinese troops to “put all (their) minds and energy on preparing for war” in a visit to a military base in Guangdong province on October 13 (Tuesday), Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.
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According to Xinhua, during an inspection of the People’s Liberation Army Marine Corps in Chaozhou City, Xi told the soldiers to “maintain a state of high alert” and called on them to be “absolutely loyal, absolutely pure, and absolutely reliable.”
However, it was not yet clear whether this comment was directed towards India, Japan or the US and other countries with which China is embroiled in a tussle in the South China Sea region.
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