How Significant Is President Xi's Purge Of The Military?

New York Times: Xi Remade China’s Military. Now a Purge Threatens its Image. 

As Xi Jinping has entrenched his hold on power in China, he has likened himself to a physician, eradicating the toxins of corruption and disloyalty that threaten the rule of the Communist Party. And his signature project for over a decade has been bringing to heel the once extravagantly corrupt military leadership. 

But recent upheavals at high levels of the People’s Liberation Army forces suggest that Mr. Xi’s cure has not endured. Last week, he abruptly replaced two top generals in the Rocket Force, an unexplained shake-up that suggests suspicions of graft or other misconduct in the sensitive arm of the military that manages conventional and nuclear missiles.  

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WNU Editor: Chinese President Xi is cleaning up house .... The Reckoning That Has Chinese Officials Dropping Like Flies (Daily Beast). And while the Western narrative is that this is part of an anti-corruption drive, I am worried that it could be something more. That what Xi is really doing is to have a military command prepped and committed to do this .... Chinese soldiers pledge to sacrifice their lives in documentary on Taiwan invasion (AP).

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