XI defeats military rival and proceeds against his own men
XI defeats military rival and proceeds against his own men
In the first few years of XI Jinping's fighting corruption, the Chinese guide consolidated control over the largest military in the world by eliminating powerful generals of rival groups and replacing them with allies and protégés that were loyal to him. Ten years later, after he has subjected the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to a structural revision and occupied its highest ranks with his own people, the top guide is still deep in his apparently endless struggle against corruption and infidelity.
XI Jinping's further cleansing in the military
How many autocratic leaders in history is increasingly opposed to his own hand -picked loyalists. At the end of the last month, Xi released one of his closest protégés in the military - a confidante of decades, to which the task was entrusted to refuse political loyalty in the PLA and to review higher appointments. Admiral Miao Hua, who sits on the central military commission (CMC), the top command organ, which is led by XI, was under the accusation of serious disciplinary violations , a common euphemism for corruption and incorrect.
The consequences of Miao's context
as head of the political department of the CMC, which is responsible for political indoctrination and personnel decisions, Miao is the highest victim in Xi's latest military-purification. Since last summer, more than a dozen high -ranking personalities from China's defense apparatus have been discontinued, including the last two defense ministers who were transported to the CMC by XI. But none of them had such a long -existing relationship with XI as Miao, whose roots go back to Xi's early political career in the coastal province of Fujian.
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