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[I was reading emails that were army internal, and I don’t recall the source. I remember that I read it in 08, but he’d said it in 06. It was definitely said, and I haven’t heard that since. Anyone that has some situational and historical awareness would realize that this was the case anyways.]

If he said it, the quality of Chinese military commanders is slipping. Not exactly a surprise, given how lucrative the Chinese private sector is, these days. The very basic truth that China is a land of hoi polloi revolts, and mutinies by both civilian* and military officials. Tyrannical impositions, whether impressed military service or corvee labor, have caused the collapses of multiple regimes. Heck - a big part of the reason for the defeat of the Nationalist regime by the Communists was the huge sacrifices incurred during the Sino-Japanese War, where the Nationalists lost millions of dead, whereas the Communists lost less than 1/10 that number, thanks to their policy of avoiding battle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War

* Within living memory, Deng Xiaoping mounted a coup against Mao’s handpicked successor, making himself China’s 3rd leader since the 1949 victory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Guofeng#Ousting_and_death