Posted on 11/08/2014 4:31:59 AM PST by Olog-hai
Chinese President Xi Jinping said the army is under the absolute leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the principle should always be firmly upheld.
“The Party commands the gun,” said Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission (CMC) chairman, at a military political work conference held in a former revolutionary base in the township of Gutian, Fujian Province on Thursday and Friday.
The ideological and political development is the lifeline for military building and has safeguarded the CPC’s absolute command of the troops, Xi noted. …
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If you have to say that out loud, it means that it is in doubt.
Only if there’s an immediate challenge following such a proclamation.
Is there a problem in China between the military and civilian leadership?
Sounds like something my dad told me. “If you have to tell people who you are, your not what you claim.”
In China, the CCP would be toast if all the people rose up. Millions would die but they could eventually take the country back. Which is much less costly in lives that when Mao cleansed the society. The rattle their proverbial sabers to keep people in line. Currently the CCP is trying to focus the people’s anger on Vietnam, Philippines and Japan. Or as I call it, The Chavez. They invent an enemy to rally the people and they will willing accept poor conditions for the good of the country. Obama tries this too.
They can’t demonize the US anymore because so many Chinese people have been to the US. The best and brightest have been students here in the US. One of my coworkers is from Beijing. He raised his son here.
This raises the question. Some years ago there was a concern that major regional generals were evolving into hereditary “warlords”, with some even called “princes”. The great concern was that at least for a time, some of them were in control of nuclear weapons.
There was some talk that the government would try to assert control over the military. But this would be difficult, as the PLA owns many businesses which effectively give it its own sources of income.
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/CRS:_CHINA%27S_MILITARY-OWNED_BUSINESSES,_January_17,_2001
Which makes this speech more interesting.
President Xi is remembered well from his time in Iowa, many years back.
That said I doubt if one in a thousand haver ever left the country?
The Chinese diaspora stay connected to the old country for many generations.
Yeah but it’s hard to demonize the place where everyone wants to go.
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