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.

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