How to understand China's national defense strategy?

National defense strategy is the overall concept of national defense construction and the use of comprehensive national strength to safeguard national security and achieve national defense goals, which depends on national strategies and policies and ultimately reflects national interests. The quality of national defense strategy is directly related to the development of national defense construction, even to the victory or defeat of war, to the survival of the country and the rise and fall of the nation.

Over the past 50 years, the national defense strategy of New China has taken the fundamental interests of the country as the highest principle, and insisted on planning military struggle preparations and military actions from the height of the national grand strategy. Therefore, the preparations for military struggle and military actions of the new China have always been based on maintaining peace around China and the world, winning and deterring the war of aggression against China, and providing a reliable guarantee for achieving national development goals. From this standpoint, the new China's national defense strategy adheres to the following important principles:

(1) serves the basic foreign policy of the country against hegemonism and power politics.

(2) Strive to create a relatively lasting international peaceful environment.

(3) Promote the development of the international strategic pattern in a direction conducive to world peace.

Strategic adjustment is the adjustment of guiding principles that have a bearing on the overall situation. The 50-year history of new China's national defense strategy shows that timely strategic adjustment according to the actual situation has a fundamental role in promoting the construction and development of the army; However, this strategic adjustment that goes against the objective reality will have a negative impact on the construction and development of the army. The key issues here are the understanding of war and peace and the judgment of the danger of war. A scientific understanding of war and peace and a correct judgment of the danger of war are the necessary prerequisites for correct strategic adjustment. In the future national defense construction, we should still grasp this key to win the strategic commanding heights of defeating the enemy.