Purging China's Central Military Commission || Jan. 27, 2026
Xi Jinping has removed yet another senior official from China's Central Military Commission (CMC). After 14 years of eliminating officials, prioritizing loyalty over competence, China's institutions are hollow.
The seven-member CMC only has two people left, Xi and a loyalist (neither of which have any military experience). This leaves China's armed forces leaderless and unable to operate effectively. Sure, Xi Jinping may have achieved personal control, but he's destroyed China's institutional capacity.
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The Kakistocracy of Murikkka will soon be the same, if this regime is not ousted.
Interesting yt video: "Just in: Zhang Youxia’s Secret Letter and the Fracture Inside China’s Military"
The Chinese premier is Li Qiang. Really feels like something you should know…
Anything progressively optimistic on the future of Tibet on this or same old same old? Dysfunctional subjugation of the people there still effective enough with such a large army? I had witnessed, first hand, the military parades in the streets and snipers on rooftops. Curious if you think anything is setup for change.
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So, is this more of the same as previous purges or is it different in result?
I'm wondering if they were fired for telling the truth about a proposed Taiwan invasion given the reality of the last exercise.
Sounds like the pre-WW2 Stalinist purge. That did not go too well.
Thank goodness we won't have 14 years of Trump or we could be in the same boat of one leader surrounded by an incompetent echo chamber. We are already too close to that for my taste.
That's assuming we get someone better next time. That's not a gimmee by any means. Kamala was no prize for sure.
Very weird that you've never commented on the extensive rumours that that Xi actually may no longer be in power and that he could, in fact be next on the chopping block.
Why would he comment on an obviously 🙄 wrong rumour?
This would appear to confirm the ancient concept that stupid is contagious. A protein virus perhaps...? :)
Some dude posted a comment stating this general and his family were close personal friends with Xi who now has his family on lockdown. Also, he was selling nuclear secretes to the west. Further, he was the last general to see military action in the 1979 war with Vietnam. As I scrolled down to read more, the post was gone! Now we're talking conspiracy stuff ;-)
Either it doesn't work or it's put to use with incompetence. This sounds very familiar.
The YouTube comments are always fun when you mention the H-Man and Trump in the same video
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Yes, the now-gone general is the last dude to see a fight. With Vietnam in '79. No it isn't strategic. The only remaining dude on the committee is the Chinese equivalent of Stephen miller. I'd rec against attacking China directly. Land wars in Asia r no fun. Easier/cheaper to just cut off the oil flows from the PGulf somewhere in the Indian Ocean where China cannot fight back.
According to the Chinese diaspora grapevine/rumor, the reason Zhang Youxia got purged was he was selling nuclear secrets of China to the US. The Zhang and Xi family were very very close with Zhang and Xi's father being sort of besties, now Xi got Zhang's entire family under surveillance/house arrest supposedly. Politics in China can be very bloody/dangerous as history have shown.
The question becomes: was this "reform" intent to eliminate corruption, or was it because Xi is hell bent on capturing Taiwan against the advice of all of his top-tier military officers?
That's a great question/observation If the information we've been getting is accurate. Xi has not received any accurate intel in years. That could be a factor in why the purged officials looked, from Xi's prospective, as "dragging their feet" or not aggressive enough, or whatever lead to the purge. They knew what he didn't know, that they weren't ready, that their weapon systems weren't a good as they lead the outside world was told, and demographicly, they didn't have enough time to get or be ready.
what is the possibility that this is strategic? A purposeful subterfuge to lower the wests estimation of China and its military? Maybe I have watched one too many thrillers, but the Chinese excel and have always been willing to play at the long game. My experience is only in business, but I have seen well prepared underlings buried behind the scenes that are actually doing the real work...it would not surprise me if the military is similar.
A feint of weakness with a shadow council would be a Sun Tzu strategy if you're truly on war footing preparing for a battle...it's not a bad idea. I mean we staged an entire fake invasion for D-Day, subterfuge part of the game
Nice cheery way to start the morning. Now...on to the next ice-snow-blizzard-ageddon!
Most are not so cheery....
Is it true that he was the only Gen who ever saw any war (Vietnam) at all?
That's right he was on the u boat with Kerry.
Finally, this has been all over YouTube all weekend
Is it possible the trigger for the purge was the military preparedness for war with Taiwan? Could this have been either the military was warmongering and Xi didn't like that, or Xi is war mongering and the military tried to say no? I thought purges were normally about threats to Xi's leadership, so trying to work out why there was a purge to begin with....
I suppose so, but doesn't the lack of competent leadership suggest if they try they will muck it up?
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Nope! There's an awful lot of them still left you know.
The problem with incapable people in command is that the may start incapable things... and cause quit a bit of damage in the process.
Does this bring us closer to, or push us farther away, from a Chinese invasion of Taiwan? Left to his own devices, which way is Xi more likely to choose?
I guess the Taiwanese can sleep easier at night....
Wasn’t this more or less the German view of the Soviets after all of Stalins purges? "You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down” or whatever Hitler said.
Lx4: Yes, that is (in translation) exactly what Hitler told his generals in 1941 when he Dunning-Krugered himself into inevitable defeat, and he then doubly guaranteed defeat by directing SS hit squads to assassinate lower-level Soviet functionaries in the occupied zone, instead of coopting them, uniting Soviet society against Germany instead of dividing them. Hitler was also, just generally, unable by nature to understand and assess the nations united against him, but that was inevitable, because he'd only ever been to France during the Great War as part of Kaiser Willy's army, and had no comprehension of even Britain, let alone the USA and the USSR. Even though the man was a raving egomaniac, obviously, even _his_ circle of key figures wasn't as bereft of competence as Xi's, and his military was permitted to escape micromanagement most of the time, and were not purged merely on account of being too good at soldiering. Luckily for the Allies, not all of his military underlings were competent evil, like Heydrich. Some, like Göring, wildly overstated what their forces (in Göring's case, the Luftwaffe) were ready and able to do, leading among other things to Operation Sea Lion getting abruptly cancelled.
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