/begin my excerpt Chinese Defense Minister Warns Against Barrack State and Non-political Military PLA to conduct massive joint military exercise with Russia next month Yonhap News 2007.07.17 11:43 Cao Gangchuan, China's Defense Minister, warned on Jul. 16 that hostile elements want to pull PLA out of party's control by westernizing and dividing PLA, promoting a barrack state. With the 80th anniversary of PLA's founding not far away, he pointed out in his essay published at Qiushi, communist party newspaper, that there are elements who want to make the military non-party, non-political entity. He made it clear that PLA is...