More of Xi Jinping’s appointees run into trouble
time that China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, purged the top tiers of the military elite, he could blame their venality on his predecessors. His two most senior scalps, Generals Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong, were both accused of taking massive bribes in exchange for promotions. But not on Mr Xi’s watch. The generals had joined the Communist Party’s Central Military Commission, which oversees the armed forces, in 1999 and retired as its vice chairmen in 2012, the year that Mr Xi took power.
Whatever the trigger, their premature removal confirms the biggest clean-out of the military top brass in almost a decade. That suggests that Mr Xi’s efforts to reform the People’s Liberation Army are facing more obstacles than previously thought. It is also the latest example of his own appointees running into trouble, in what some see as a sign of his own misjudgment, and of divisions within the elite.
The Rocket Force’s share of China’s military budget is thought to have been rapidly expanding, too. In recent years it has been at the centre of an upgrade of China’s nuclear arsenal that is unprecedented in its scale and complexity, according to the Pentagon.
”Mr Mulvaney notes that General Xu, who as political commissar is responsible for enforcing ideology and party discipline, is a full member of the party’s central committee. He thus has higher political status than General Wang, who is not a member of the body. That underlines the message that the party retains ultimate authority over theThere are indications that the Rocket Force’s troubles extend to other current and former officers as well.
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