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Ever-growing rumors, disappearances, and peculiar patterns suggest Xi Jinping’s grip on power is not the same as before. “I think that Xi Jinping has lost control of the Chinese military, and I think that he has lost some influence among civilian CCP leaders,” says Gordon G. Chang.

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.Gordon G. Chang: "I think that Xi Jinping has lost control of the Chinese military. And I think that he has lost some influence among civilian CCP leaders. …His number one guy in the military, his number one loyalist, his hatchet man, General He Weidong, has not been seen in public since March 11. …Everybody says, 'well, Xi Jinping has been sacking his own loyalists,' and that's possible, but I don't think that it is right. …There have been a series of articles in PLA Daily, the main propaganda organ of the Chinese military, that have praised 'collective leadership.' That's a direct challenge to Xi Jinping's one-man-rule style. And so these articles were written by people who are aligned with General Zhang Youxia, who is the number one uniformed officer in the military, who is known to not be on particularly good terms with Xi Jinping." …On the civilian side of things, it's less clear…For basically five weeks, Xi Jinping just dropped out of propaganda. He dropped out of sight for the most part. Those times he did appear in media, he appeared in roles which showed that he had been diminished in stature. …We also saw the disappearance of a senior Chinese diplomat, Lu Jianchao, and we don't know what's going on there. This follows, of course, the disappearances of other civilian leaders. Again, this is really murky. Not all of it points to Xi Jinping losing influence, but some of it does. We will know a lot more after the fourth plenum in October."

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“Even if you follow Xi Jinping, you still will be purged. So the hidden rule is broken. I think that will be the end of the whole system,” says China analyst Heng He. With the recent purges of two top military generals, Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, five of the seven members of China’s Central Military Commission have effectively been purged or removed. Only two remain, one of which is Xi Jinping himself. Zhang Youxia is known to have been a longtime ally of Xi Jinping, but was purged nonetheless. The CCP, like a mafia, is governed by unwritten rules. Now, Xi Jinping has broken all the CCP’s hidden rules, He says. “Now nobody knows whom to trust,” and that’s a big problem for the CCP. Xi has essentially purged the two remaining generals with actual battlefield experience. The Chinese military, Heng explains, is different from armed forces in the rest of the world. It’s ruled by the Chinese Communist Party and its primary function has been to protect the Communist Party—not to fight wars overseas. The CCP’s leaders, he explains, depend on the protection of the military, but at the same time they do not trust the military: “They are afraid that they will turn the gun to the wrong side.” But, in order to conquer Taiwan which, Heng tells me, is Xi’s lifelong dream, the generals must be put in full control: “Xi Jinping cannot fight himself, right? He has to give the command to the military leaders. That means the military has the power to turn the gun backwards.” With the removal of General Zhang Youxia—who appears to have opposed Xi Jinping’s views on an invasion of Taiwan—Xi removed an obstacle - but at what price? “The chain of command in the military is totally broken…This never happened in the history of communist rule,” he said.

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