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The greatest political turmoil in history is currently taking place within the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). President Xi Jinping has dismissed or banished 101 top military officials in an unprecedented move to tighten his grip on power and the military. With China’s most powerful military body, the Central Military Commission (CMC), virtually vacant, Xi Jinping has completely handed over command of the military to two of his most trusted loyalists—Zhang Shuguang and Wang Gang.
What is dangerous ‘Mao Model’ and Xi Jinping’s possession of gun?
This aggressive step of Xi Jinping is being linked to the historical ‘Mao Model’ of China’s founder Mao Zedong. The main objective of this strategy is to ensure that every senior officer of the country’s Communist Party and the world’s largest army with 20 lakh soldiers remains loyal only to the President. In the year 2024, Jinping himself had openly said that “guns should remain only in loyal hands.” The seven-member Top Command Center (CMC) now effectively leaves only Xi Jinping and Vice President Zhang Shengmin, with all other seats vacant due to corruption probes and sudden disappearances.
What will be the effect of new appointments on India and Taiwan border?
The roles of the two generals promoted by Xi Jinping are extremely sensitive:
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Air Force Chief Wang Gang: 61-year-old Wang Gang is a former stunt pilot. All major decisions regarding Chinese air deployment, fighter aircraft, drones, missile support and high-altitude military operations along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India and the Taiwan front will now be directly in the hands of Wang Gang.
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Corruption probe chief Zhang Shuguang: 67-year-old Zhang Shuguang has been made the new boss of the CMC’s anti-corruption unit. This simply means that the next round of arrests and investigations under Xi Jinping’s ‘army-cleansing’ campaign will now take place at the behest of Shuguang.
China’s war system weakened due to vacancy in the army
According to the report of think tank CSIS, the internal coordination of the army has become extremely weak due to the removal of 101 officers out of the top 176 important posts of the Chinese Army. Its effect is also visible on China’s war preparations. While in the year 2024, China used to start major military exercises against Taiwan in just 3 to 4 days, in the years 2025 and 2026, due to the vacancy in the top command, it took a long time of 12 to 19 days for China to react and start the maneuvers. This internal discord in China, which spends the highest defense budget in the world after America, has raised serious questions on its combat capability.
