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).
Anti-corruption is the explanation given to avoid awkward questions.Its an easy ready made excuse so most people won't actually dig deeper.The real reasons are completely different. My suspicion is that they're tied to Ukraine in some way.
ReplyDeletePer my understanding and conversations with Chinese-Americans, corruption is deeply entrenched in the Chinese character.
ReplyDeleteAnd korean
Delete7:38 really?
ReplyDeleteHave you seen American businesses?
How about Joe Biden setting up 22 or more shell companies to funnel over 10 million or more dollars to his family. The services or products provided to "earn" such money is unknown.
Some banks and companies are deemed to big to fail.
That has been said about the Joe Biden scandal. It is too big to prosecute. it would bring down more than just Joe Biden and his rotten crotch family.
Reading what the Chinese said sounds fanatical like suicide B bomber
ReplyDeletethey understand that the time is now for absolute loyalty.... to meet the challenges ahead.....at least that what they think.
ReplyDeleteAnd how can you be truly loyal if you are corrupt? Thinking only for yourself and not of self sacrifice to the Nation?
This will be an ongoing process, how long? Who Knows?
Xi could go far... or his successor... or his...Son... ...?
ReplyDeleteI measured Xi's skull and found out he's actually pretty smart.
ReplyDeleteMr. Xi was also warning of deepening rivalry with the United States, and he told the generals that the internal decay could be disastrous. “What starts as decadence will slide toward destruction,” he said, citing an ancient Chinese aphorism.
It's going to be the biggest army in the world, the US is preparing for its decline on a world scale, only Africa and the Middle East already hate the US 100% and they pretend not to notice..., all that's missing is South America
ReplyDeleteXi should look at Stalin. Uncle Joe purged his top leadership and it so weakened Russia that Germany felt freer to invade and Stalin took a long time and lots of Lend/Lease materiel before he recovered.
ReplyDelete^^^ Be careful with your yardstick big guy. Hitler had the Night of the Long Knives and he had a purge in 1938.
ReplyDeleteRoosevelt had a purge in 1941. FDR's purge was to go through the list of generals and admirals and rate them as competent or incompetent and then fight the war.
The general and admiral in Hawaii were rated as incompetent although FDR (King Cotton) knew the Pearl Harbor attack was coming and did not inform them. Army Air Fore planes in Hawaii were all lined up to better protect from sabotage. Obviously, this left them better to be strafed by Japanese pilots.
As an aside, unlike in the American West the Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were not rounded up. Washington wanted to round them up, but military brass convinced them not to round them up. The reason? The generals on the ground in Hawaii said the local economy would collapse.
You may be right, but my initial thought is that Hitler in the Long Knives didn’t purge the military, he purged the threat to dilute the military. And Roosevelt ranking his military officers isn’t quite the same as Stalin having his all shot.
ReplyDeleteThere were the Hitler purges before the bombing of the Wolf's Lair.
ReplyDeleteFDR's rankings may not have been on the up and up. It would take detailed study. Definitely an admiral and general in Hawaii were unfairly shafted by FDR to suit his political needs.