““China is no longer an isolated, inward-looking country. It is building a military that can continue to respond to domestic problems and secure sovereign territory, but also must patrol and keep open vital sea and air lines of communication while defending its economic and political interests far from home.7 This improvement in force projection marks a transition from a military that worried about China’s immediate borders to one that has been instructed by the Communist Party to be prepared to defend more distant national interests.””
![“Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old concept of isolation, the idea that you can solve your problems on your own does not work anymore - neither in cultural, economic, nor political terms.” quote by Zhang Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/81a/zhang-xin-16964_china_country-china-needs-to-continue-opening_1957044.jpg)
