Tag: Central Military Commission

  • Thank you, President Jinping.

    Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was escorted out of a Communist Party meeting during a five-yearly leadership reshuffle. “A high-profile purge of Hu…shows the presence of dissent, and the notion that Xi is at least ‘challengeable’,” Professor Joel Wuthnow, a senior research fellow at US National Defence University, said. Four of the top six officers…

  • China is now led by ‘action men’, what does that mean for Taiwan?

    Four of the top six officers of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) have reached the normal retirement age of 68 and are being replaced as President Xi Jinping heads into his third term, according to US’ Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs. The appointment of General He Weidong as one of two CMC…