Chinese Active Defense and Strategic Deception

The following is an excerpt from the 2006 Annual Report to the US Congress on the Military Power of the People's Republic of China.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2006/2006-prc-military-power03.htm

Two interesting pieces.

• Active Defense defined
  "The 'active defense guideline posits a defensive military strategy and asserts that China does not initiate wars or fight wars of aggression, but engages in war only to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity...Beijing’s definition of an attack against its territory, or what constitutes an initial attack, is too vague to clarify matters to outsiders, however, in cases where Chinese use of force involves core interests, such as sovereignty or territorial claims (including Taiwan), Beijing could claim military preemption as a strategically defensive act...This logic could also add ambiguity to the dimension of China’s policy of 'no first use' of nuclear weapons."

• Strategic Deception
  The writings of Master Sun make an appearance again. Recent Chinese doctrinal materials define the goals of strategic deception as “to lure the other side into developing misperceptions . . . and to [establish for oneself] a strategically advantageous position by producing various kinds of false phenomena in an organized and planned manner with the smallest cost in manpower and materials.”