Consider the following statements regarding China's party-state military command architecture:

Statements

1. The Central Military Commission (CMC) is China's apex military decision-making body, and its chairmanship is held by the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party — meaning ultimate military authority rests with the party, not the state or the professional military.
2. The PLA Rocket Force is responsible for managing China's conventional and nuclear missiles and is structurally a separate service arm, distinct from the five theatre commands that are responsible for joint operations in defined geographic areas.
3. The five PLA theatre commands are organised as functional commands defined by domain (land, sea, air, cyber, space) rather than as geographic commands responsible for specific regional contingencies.