WSJ: Xi Jinping Uses Stalin, Mao Tactics to Cement Rule
- Chinese leader Xi Jinping has intensified a purge at the top of the country’s military, removing his highest-ranked general last month.
- Since 2022, 36 generals and lieutenant generals have been purged, with another 65 officers missing or possibly purged, according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
- The purges have affected 52% of the People's Liberation Army's 176 top leadership positions, counting repeated purges of some roles.
- The purges may have impacted military readiness, as People's Liberation Army exercises around Taiwan took longer in 2025 compared to 2024.
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'Nobody is safe': China's Xi targets his close ally in purge
China’s investigation into its top general is taking President Xi Jinping’s years-long corruption purge into his innermost circle, underlining that even close personal ties do not offer protection when it comes to loyalty to the party leadership.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim A-ram = Chinese President Xi Jinping is successively purging not only 'opposition forces' but also his close aides, and is consolidating his long-term rule by putting his closest confidants at the forefront...
Xi’s corruption crackdown by the numbers
China’s campaign against corruption, which the country’s leaders have linked to the Communist Party’s ability to stay in power, has been President Xi Jinping’s signature policy since he rose to power in 2012. More than a decade on, it continues apace. The South China Morning Post takes a multimedia deep dive into the cases of top officials, known as “tigers”, brought down between 2013 and 2025 to see what those investigations tell us about the a…
Analysis suggests that Chinese President Xi Jinping is establishing the most powerful one-man rule since Mao Zedong by successively purging not only opposition forces but also his close aides. The Wall Street Journal reported on the 4th (local time) that "to maintain his long-term rule, President Xi is employing authoritarian governing methods similar to those used by Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong to eliminate opposition and replace the leadershi…
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