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Xi brought down powerful rivals in the military. Now he’s going after his own men
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Xi brought down powerful rivals in the military. Now he’s going after his own men

In the early years of Xi Jinping’s war on corruption, the Chinese leader consolidated control over the world’s largest military by taking down powerful generals from rival factions and replacing them with allies and proteges loyal to himself. A decade on, having given the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) a structural overhaul and stacked its top...