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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.
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