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Will Xi Jinping Save the Disunity in the Military?

2013-02-04 07:18 AM

Xi Jinping, the President, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, andGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party, has been very active in the armysince the 18th National Congress.

In just over two months, he has conducted inspection of the army covering thesea, land and air, the Second Artillery Corps, and armed police.

Regional generals have also been reorganized and appointed.

However, military power is still divided by Jiang faction, and the faction for stability maintenance.

Anti-corruption in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to date only reached GuJunshan, former deputy director of the PLA General Logistics Department.

Will Xi Jinping be able to control the PLA?

How long will the regime last? The following is our report.

PLA official website, chinamil.com, reported that Xi Jinping visited an Air Force base in remote Gobi on Feb 2nd.

This base is referred to as the first PLA Air Force pilot training base located atDingxin Airport in Gansu Province.

After the 18th National Congress, reorganization of the Generals at PLA regionshas taken place with the Air Force experiencing the most significant personnel

adjustment.

Xi Jinping once served as a secretary of Geng Biao, then Minister of NationalDefense.

He knows his power within the regime depends on the second generation of thered army leadership, i.e., those who were born after the 1950s.


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With his new leadership, Xi Jinping has appointed nearly 40 new generals bornafter the 50s.

Among them, more than twenty were promoted to the PLA regions, and many

have the background in Russian studies with a master's degree.Recently, Xi Jinping also signed a presidential order to honor six military unitsand 24 individuals.

Xi Jinping's strong determination to control the army is evident in his tour speech to the south. He said the collapse of the Soviet Union is a painful lessonof a national and non-party Soviet army. A neutral army is not enough to protectthe Communist Party.

Political commentator Wu Fan: "An army not for the Soviet Communist Partythat leads to the collapse of Soviet Union is the lesson Xi Jinping is obsessed with. That's the reason why he talked about controlling the PLA tightly in thehand of the Party in his speech.

Xi Jinping has been in power for three months. To control the army is his major priority. Armed police will be the next to control.

These two are his tools to protect the regime.

Without the army and the armed police, his general secretary position is not secured."

Xi Jinping promulgated ten rules to the Central Military Commission inDecember 2012.

Among these rules include minimum accommodation during official inspectionsand forbidding banquet and drinking.

These were considered Xi Jinping's moves to regulate the army.

However, it is criticized that Xi Jinping's anti-corruption in the army is

superficial for it stops at Gu Junshan, and controls drinking only.


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Cai Guihua, one of the founders of the Democracy Wall, indicates PLA armycorruption has become a characteristic of the regime due to Jiang Zemin having

used it to secure his power in the army.

Wu Fan: "Xi Jinping is using all tactics to control the army. His anti-corruptionin the army will only hit the deputy director of logistics. The rest will be, aslong as the commands are obeyed, do as much as youd like.' An army like thiswill not have any fighting power. It is full of corruption and bribery. This armyis useless."

The Communist regime's claim to fight has gone rampant since the air forceconfrontation with Japan over the Diaoyu Islands this January.

Hong Kong's Chengming magazine analyzed that Xi Jinping's political power isstill insecure because Jiang faction continues to influence the army.

The influence of Politics and Law Committee for stability maintenance has been

relegated, but the Central Comprehensive Social Management Commissionremains.

Xi Jinping's claim to fight is intended to gather the dispersed military power.

Wu Fan: "Xi Jinping intended to mobilize his buddy and crumble his opponentsby inspecting around.

The army is not entirely controlled by the Central Military Commission, but byvarious factions.

There is the Jiang faction and Bo Xilai faction, and the armed police under Zhou Yongkang.

It will take time for him to deal with these individual factions.

With the incentive of preparing for war, he intended to control the army and

have them serve for him, the regime leader and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission."


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Wu Fan indicates that the soul is the root of the army.

The army must carry the will to protect the home, the country and the territory.

Without it, it is only a gang and a group of bandits in uniform.

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