The tough language in the expulsion announcement suggests Chinese leader Xi Jinping is not done with his effort to ensure total loyalty in the world’s largest army.
Then-Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe, front, walks out after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Defense Ministers' Meeting in Siem Reap, Cambodia on Nov. 22, 2022. China’s expulsion of two former defense ministers from the Chinese Communist Party this week signaled a sharp escalation in Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s years-long effort to root out corruption and ensure total loyalty in the armed forces.
The strongly worded statement, released by state broadcaster CCTV late Thursday, was a message to the rest of the People’s Liberation Army to clean up their act and get on board with Xi’s agenda, experts on Chinese politics said. In a symbolic attempt to rekindle revolutionary zeal, Xi last week gathered top military brass in Yan’an, in rural Shaanxi province, the base for the Communist Party troops who fought Japanese invaders then overthrew the Nationalists in the Chinese civil war, which ended in 1949.Xi told them there was “no place for corrupt elements in the military.” “The root cause of these problems lies in a lack of ideals and beliefs,” he said.
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