Editing Politics of China (section)

== Armed forces ==
{{Main|People's Liberation Army|People's Armed Police|Militia (China)}}
{{See also|List of wars involving the People's Republic of China}}The CCP created and leads the People's Liberation Army. After the PRC was established in 1949, the PLA also became a state military. The state's military system upholds the principle of the CCP's absolute leadership over the armed forces, often referred to under Mao's maxim that "[[Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun|the Party commands the gun]]." The CCP and the state jointly established the [[Central Military Commission (China)|Central Military Commission]] that carries out the task of supreme military leadership over the armed forces.<ref name="M. Taylor Fravel 2019">{{Cite book |last=Fravel |first=M. Taylor |title=Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949 |date=2019 |volume=2 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=978-0-691-18559-0 |doi=10.2307/j.ctv941tzj |jstor=j.ctv941tzj |author-link=Taylor Fravel |s2cid=159282413}}</ref>