China military's biggest shakeup in 9 years adds info, cyber, space units

Control of information is vital to 'winning a modern war,' Xi Jinping says

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People's Liberation Army representatives attend the opening of China's National People's Congress in March. © Kyodo

YUKIO TAJIMA, Nikkei staff writer

BEIJING -- China has created new independent People's Liberation Army units for information, space and cyber operations in its most sweeping military reorganization in nearly a decade.

The old Strategic Support Force was broken up and replaced with the three new arms, one of which, the Information Support Force, is responsible for gathering and analyzing information, building communication networks and protecting vital systems.

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