Over the past year, China’s President Xi Jinping has undertaken two waves of purges of high-ranking military leaders from the People’s Liberation Army. The first wave targeted the PLA Rocket Force, responsible for China’s strategic missile arsenal. This resulted in the June 2024 expulsion of former Defence Ministers General Wei Fenghe and General Li Shangfu from the Chinese Communist Party for violating “political discipline”. The second wave, beginning in November 2024, has seen other senior members of the Central Military Commission (CMC) such as Admiral Miao Hua, Defence Minister Dong Jun and now CMC Vice Chairman General He Weidong placed under investigation.
Explaining Xi’s PLA purges (Michael Clarke, Jade Guan – The Interpreter)
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