[snip] He has since been out of the public eye, skipping a high-level military meeting and the annual United Nations assembly... Nearly 10,000 flights—almost two-thirds of those scheduled for the day—were called off on Saturday, the same day a key conference on national defense and military reform was convened in Beijing... Xi, who arrived back in China’s capital on Sept. 16... didn’t appear at the Beijing meeting but relayed instructions that the armed forces should focus on preparing for war. Similarly missing was Wei Fenghe, his handpicked Chinese military general currently serving as the country’s national defense minister... During the past week, six senior Chinese officials, including two former cabinet-level officials, were handed heavy sentences for corruption-related offenses, adding to a string of officials purged in Xi’s anti-graft campaign he launched after taking office in late 2012. [/snip]
Lao Deng:
Xi Jinping is not allowed to participate in the reform meeting of the Military Commission
Anti-Xi general Li Qiaoming appeared in the first row
Song Ping, the elder of the kingmaker, helps Xi Jinping under Li Shang
Old Chen of the Xi faction broke the news that Xi plans to change the chairman system at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
https://twitter.com/laodeng89/status/1572768276467568641
with a link to YT that suggested that the 105 years old Song Ping is the driving force for reform (He forgot to say that Song Ping was against the Democracy movement in 1989, but perhaps Song has changed his mind nowadays?)
In the YT it was said that Li Qiaoming was present in a meeting despite that he was kicked out by Xi and that this shows that Xi has little control over the PLA. This part could have been the source of the rumors.
The remaining part of the YT is pseudo-predictions of the status and development of technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHpAB9cjoJI