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PRC's CMC created the ISF on April 19, 2024, replacing the PLA SSF. Xi Jinping awarded the military flag. ISF focuses on communication networks. New arms redefine PLA's structure for modernization goals.
The Information Support Force was regarded as the revised version of the PLA's Strategic Support Force, established in 2015 by the Chinese military to deal with space, cyber, political and electronic warfare to fight what was described as 'informationised wars'.
President Xi Jinping inaugurates the Information Support Force, a new strategic branch for modern warfare, enhancing China's cyber and space defense.
The move will affect the force in charge of capabilities including cyber warfare. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Xi is creating a new branch called the Information Support Force. The aerospace and cyber units previously under the Strategic Support Force will now be organisationally parallel to the newly created Information Support Force, the defence ministry said in a statement. The aerospace unit will improve China's capability to use space and step up the management of space crises, the ministry said.