Commander-in-chief. (Reuters/Damir Sagolj)
Reuters: Sweeping change in China's military points to more firepower for Xi
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s military is preparing a sweeping leadership reshuffle, dropping top generals, including two that sources say are under investigation for corruption.
The changes would make room for President Xi Jinping to install trusted allies in key positions at a key party congress that begins on Oct 18.
A list of 303 military delegates to the Communist Party Congress, published by the army’s official newspaper on Wednesday, excluded Fang Fenghui and Zhang Yang, both members of the Central Military Commission. The commission is China’s top military decision-making body.
Reuters reported this week that the 66-year-old Fang, who accompanied Xi to his first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in April, is being questioned on suspicion of corruption.
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WNU Editor: 7 of China's top 11 military leaders will be gone when the Chinese Party Congress starts next month .... replaced not only with younger military leaders, but men who are loyal to President Xi. In another time we would be call this massive military overhaul a purge ..... but in today's modern China, we call this (cough cough) retirement. :)
2 comments:
Retirement is good.
It beats execution or a camp, so long retirement is commensurate with rank.
A retired general could still do lots of things.
So, no surprise, that's what a dictatorship is.
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