“China’s Premier Xi Jinping Reshaping of the People’s Liberation Army” - Video Sample 2

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is using his anti-corruption campaign as less of a way to eliminate corruption but to strengthen the political reliability of the PLA and has re-introduced the role of the political officer to in further pursuit of that goal despite potentially compromising the PLA’s effectiveness with peer adversaries.  It asks the question of why do this? Original Substack Article:https://open.substack.com/pub/thomasleckwold/p/chinas-premier-xi-jinping-reshaping?r=2vilr7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=trueIf you like my content, please consider becoming a Substack subscriber to Pegasus Research or support me through Patreon.https://www.patreon.com/PegasusResearch This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thomasleckwold.substack.com/subscribe