China's Corrupt Generals Made Nuclear Missiles Dud? | Inside PLA Purge with Molly Gambhir

Recommendable! Is China now a paper tiger?

Xi Jinping’s military purges probably cut imminent Taiwan war risk or accelerates it

How obsessed is Xi Jinping (age 72, in power for 13 years) with invading or seizing Taiwan?

Were the purged generals to reluctant to go along?

"Xi Jinping’s latest purge of top military officers probably reduces the chance of China taking imminent, deliberate military action to seize Taiwan. But many interpretations of the event are possible, and some imply an increased risk of war, perhaps accidental.

The Ministry of National Defence on 24 January announced investigations into Central Military Commission (CMC) vice-chair Zhang Youxia and Joint Staff Department chief Liu Zhenli for ‘vile influence on the Party, the state and the military’. The move follows earlier removals and investigations that have steadily hollowed out senior military ranks ..."

Xi’s military purge probably cuts imminent Taiwan war risk. Probably | The Strategist

China's top general under investigation with the communist party now investigating the last two top military officials

Just business as usual or what is going on in communist China?

Why do China’s bosses keep disappearing?

Between January and September 2025 about 39 CEOs of listed companies were disappeared? This might be employed to obtain additional government revenues!

Five high level business men have committed suicide so far this year.

Thousands of other business employees have been detained too!

Xi Jinping's PLA Purge: Top Generals Ousted Amid Corruption Scandal with Palki Sharma

Very recommendable! These purges of high ranking military officials is very extensive!

China's Top Business Tycoons go Missing: Xi's Latest Purge? with Palki Sharma

Very recommendable! Millionaires are leaving China too!

Over 200 billionaires emigrated from China recently

Chinese ex-president Hu Jintao suddenly escorted out of congress

Very serious stuff! Very concerning! Are we witnessing one of the typical communist purges that the usurper and dictator for life Xi Jinping is executing here? I am afraid so!

What purges are next?

The Lin Biao Incident And The People’s Liberation Army Of Purges

Very recommendable!

However, the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Milley and the hapless Defense Secretary Austin need to resign or be fired over the Afghanistan debacle!

Given all the recent massive purges under the self anointed dictator for life Xi Jinping, is the current People's Liberation Army perhaps only a paper tiger?

"A hallmark of communist military culture is the ruthless purge of the most senior commanders who are considered able but simultaneously threatening to the supreme leader. During the Great Purge of the 1930s, Stalin purged three of his five Red Army marshals, thirteen of his fifteen army commanders, and eight of his nine admirals.
Not to be outmatched, the supreme leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) also has a similar bloody history of military purges. Of the ten People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) marshals that Mao Zedong designated in 1955, three of them died tragic deaths in a direct purge by Mao, and nine of them were “struggled against” by Mao for harboring impure Marxist-Leninist thoughts and questionable loyalty to him, a precursor to physical elimination. ...

Xi Jinping, the current supreme dictator of the PRC and the general secretary of the CCP, has even outdone Mao in his ruthless purge of the PLA leadership. Since 2014, thousands of senior PLA officers have been purged. First on his chopping block were the two highest-ranking PLA commanders who ran the world’s largest armed force for over a decade until Xi’s rise to supremacy in 2012, vice chairmen of the CMC, Generals Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong.

General Xu, purged in 2014, died in agony one year later; General Guo is now serving a life sentence in a communist prison. Included in the thousands of senior PLA officers promoted during Xu and Guo’s tenure are seven of the PLA’s highest ranking military generals. Xi’s military purge is so thorough that the entire senior military staff working under his predecessor, General Secretary Hu Jintao, has been purged.

The PLA has many enemies, but one of the biggest has always been its own purger-in-chief. Xi Jinping is no exception.

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The Lin Biao Incident And The People’s Liberation Army Of Purges | Hoover Institution

Kim Jong Un: Courage Or Deception?

Posted: 6/12/2018  Revised/Updated: 5/31/2019

Update Of 5/31/2019

Today, following article appeared in the The Korean Times: 'Kim Jong-un carried out purge after Hanoi summit collapse': report. (5/31/19) Here is the related Reuters News article: North Korea executes envoy to failed U.S. summit -media; White House monitoring (5/30/19)

“North Korea executed Kim Hyok Chol, its special envoy to the United States, and foreign ministry officials who carried out working-level negotiations for the second U.S.-North Korea summit in February, holding them responsible for its collapse …

The North Korean leader is believed to be carrying out a massive purge to divert attention away from internal turmoil and discontent, the newspaper said. …

It is the first time since the December 2013 execution of Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Un's uncle ...” (emphasis added)

It still remains an open question whether the dictator of North Korea evolves more like Stalin or like Gorbachev.

We  know from experience with the history of e.g. USSR and People’s Republic of China that purges in totalitarian communist regimes have to be taken quite seriously. They may portend e.g. significant changes or a power consolidation.

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Now that the historic meeting between the Korean dictator and a U.S. president has taken place, many wonder what will be the outcome of this in the following days, weeks, months, or years? If President Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev are any guide, we should remain optimistic.

If Kim Jong Un is sincere in his efforts to finally to end the Stalinist totalitarian dictatorship in North Korea, he truly is a courageous leader and deserves to be remembered in history despite all his guilt. There are probably many vested interests in North Korea (and probably in Russia and China) that prefer the status quo as it is and these vested interest would do anything in their power not to lose their privileges they have enjoyed for some time. Thus, Kim Jong Un’s life is in jeopardy.

If Kim Jong Un is insincere and/or his allies Russia and China are scheming to upset the West than we wish or will see if President Trump has the clairvoyance to counter that!

From my previous blog posts, the reader will gather that I have supported a reunited Korean peninsula and have speculated over why it has not happened a long time ago (see e.g. here).