Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspects the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Photo courtesy of Xinhua/Li Gang. Since coming to power in 2012, Xi Jinping has prosecuted approximately 2.3 million government officials in his anti-corruption campaign, which has also served to remove opposition. While Xi’s purges of the military, including over 50 generals at major general rank or above in the first wave (2014-2016) and extensive recent purges that removed half the Central Military Commission, have reduced potential threats to his position and consolidated his power, they have also created instability within his support base. Many of those purged were not directly working to remove him but had ties…
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