Maj. Gen. Luo Yuan, deputy secretary general of the China Military Science Society (CMSS) of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently proposed at the forum on the topic of “Marine Rights and Interests: The National Interests and Security of China” that China should realize military presence on the Diaoyu Islands in order to highlight China’s territorial sovereignty.
According to Luo Yuan, China should preserve its maritime rights and interests in a comprehensive way. Although China often focuses on the “presence of sovereignty” on related islands and reefs, the “presence of sovereignty” should not be a lip-service. Rather, it should be realized in actions to highlight the six kinds of presence, namely the administrative presence, the legal existence, the military presence, the law enforcement presence, the economic presence and the public opinion presence.
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