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China tells military to be on guard against "liberalism"
Reuters ^ | 4/16/15

Posted on 04/16/2015 5:48:49 PM PDT by markomalley

China's military ordered its forces on Thursday to be on guard against "liberalism" and ensure their loyalty to the ruling Communist Party, the latest battle in President Xi Jinping's war against corruption in the services.

The People's Liberation Army, the world's largest armed forces, "must put the orders of the party into action, must maintain and uphold the correct political beliefs, must guard against and rectify political liberalism", the military said in a statement carried by the official Xinhua news agency.

(Excerpt) Read more at in.reuters.com ...


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This sounds eerily familiar...consider our own EEO commissars.
1 posted on 04/16/2015 5:48:49 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Clasical liberalism anyway is what they don’t like. Not the leftist socialist crap that too many people call liberals here in the USA.


2 posted on 04/16/2015 5:50:31 PM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: markomalley
What they mean is no glasnost; no liberalization.

Corruption is an image problem for the Party, an excuse to tighten its control over the military.

Practices such as illicitly selling military commissions come with any openness in Chinese culture.

3 posted on 04/16/2015 6:20:46 PM PDT by Praxeologue ( ')
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To: Praxeologue

No PC crap for them.


5 posted on 04/16/2015 7:05:50 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: markomalley

Bu—bu—but Hillary wears a Mao suit. Doesn’t that make it ok??


6 posted on 04/16/2015 7:25:32 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: markomalley

By all means, Chicoms, don’t do to your military what unimpeachable-treason-boy-Obama is doing to the U.S. military.


7 posted on 04/17/2015 6:14:08 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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