On this Day in Chinese History; 23 May

This day, 23 May, in 1985, Chairman of the Central Military Commission Deng Xiaoping announced that the People’s Liberation Army would reduce its military by one million. Deng said, “Our judgment on the international situation has changed and our foreign policy has also changed. … We believe that a world war will not break out for a long period of time and there is hope for maintaining world peace”.