{"id":2031382,"date":"2023-09-14T04:10:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-touts-anti-corruption-drive-as-high-level-officials-disappear\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T04:14:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T08:14:36","slug":"china-touts-anti-corruption-drive-as-high-level-officials-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-touts-anti-corruption-drive-as-high-level-officials-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"China promotes anti-corruption campaign as top officials vanish."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-touts-anti-corruption-drive-as-high-level-officials-disappear%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2031382&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Chinese\u2063 General\u200b Secretary Xi Jinping\u2019s Anti-Corruption Initiative Targets People\u2019s Liberation Army<\/h2>\n<p>Chinese General Secretary Xi\u200c Jinping\u2019s regime has launched an anti-corruption initiative\u200b focused on \u2064the \u200bChinese People\u2019s Liberation\u2063 Army, stoking\u200c speculation about internal regime tensions amid the\u2062 ouster of multiple high-level officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the reasons he&#8217;s been trying to clean up the\u200b military\u200b is to ensure that it will be obedient to\u2064 him\u2064 and to his leadership,\u201d\u200c the \u2063Heritage Foundation\u2019s Michael \u200cCunningham,\u2062 a \u2064senior\u2064 research fellow at the conservative think-tank\u2019s Asian Studies Center, told the Washington Examiner. \u201cBut one of\u200d the other reasons \u200cis\u200b &#8230; corruption is not\u2064 good for when you&#8217;re trying to have a combat-ready military.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Combat Readiness and Corruption<\/h3>\n<p>Xi will have derived a stark demonstration of that\u2064 principle from the failure of Russia\u2019s attempt to overthrow\u200c the \u2064Ukrainian government last year, even though that war remains unfinished. Yet the latest crackdown comes\u200b at \u200ban intriguing time in Beijing, as \u200cseveral Chinese officials appear to\u2064 have fallen out of \u2063favor and out of the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is another, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-touts-anti-corruption-drive-as-high-level-officials-disappear\/\" title=\"China promotes anti-corruption campaign as top officials vanish.\">stronger\u200c anti-graft storm hitting<\/a> the army, \u200cas corruption is being uncovered through the investigations,\u201d a retired People\u2019s Liberation Army officer was quoted as telling the South China \u2063Morning Post this week. \u201cThe\u200b most urgent issue\u2062 is about improving combat readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That report coincides with widening speculation that Chinese Defense\u200c Minister Li Shangfu,\u200b who seems \u2062not to have made a \u200dpublic appearance\u200b since Aug. 29,\u200c has become\u2062 entangled in the investigations. In parallel, Chinese state media has urged Chinese defense leaders to spend time with\u200d &#8220;grass-roots soldiers instead of relying\u200c on information collected from second-hand sources,&#8221; \u2064as\u200c the SCMP put it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of the Central Military Commission should take the lead in \u200ccarrying out\u200c investigations and research by organizing seminars and exchange,&#8221; the PLA Daily\u200c added in an editorial this week. &#8220;Follow a simple and frugal [work] style with \u200ca \u2064humble and prudent mindset in \u200bconducting investigation and research.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Mysterious Disappearances and\u2064 Speculation<\/h3>\n<p>Li\u2019s seeming absence \u2063comes in the\u2062 wake of then-Chinese Foreign \u200bMinister Qin Gang\u2019s still-unexplained removal \u2064in July. Qin was tapped for the role just six months \u2062earlier. Qin\u2019s\u2064 removal was followed in short order by the ouster of the\u2062 People\u2019s Liberation Army Rocket\u2063 Force, a series of personnel moves that have left Beijing a target of\u2064 speculation and even\u2064 mockery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Xi\u2019s cabinet lineup is now resembling \u2062Agatha\u200b Christie\u2019s novel And Then\u200b There Were None,\u201d Ambassador Rahm Emanuel,\u2063 who leads the U.S. Embassy in Japan, wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a>\u200b last week.\u2064 \u201cFirst,\u200d Foreign Minister Qin Gang \u200cgoes missing, then the Rocket Force commanders go missing, and now Defense Minister Li Shangfu hasn\u2019t\u2064 been seen in public for two weeks. \u200dWho\u2019s going to win \u200bthis unemployment race? China\u2019s youth or Xi\u2019s cabinet?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet China\u2019s defense ministers tend \u200dto \u200cmake fewer public appearances than their\u2062 diplomatic \u2064counterparts, leaving open the possibility that Li\u2019s schedule\u200c is unfolding in regular order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s too soon\u2062 to make a call on\u200b Li\u2063 Shangfu,\u201d a retired senior U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rush-to-judgement-three-crucial-questions-remain-unanswered-about-capitol-siege\/\" title=\"Rush to judgement? Three crucial questions remain unanswered about Capitol siege\">intelligence official told<\/a> the\u200b Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham concurred but noted that some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-fbi-special-agent-finds-17514-georgia-voters-with-out-of-state-forwarded-mail-addresses\/\" title=\"Former FBI Special Agent Finds 17,514 Georgia Voters with Out-of-State Forwarded Mail Addresses\">corruption cases<\/a> seem to overlap with Li\u2019s career arc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina&#8217;s military\u200b has\u2062 publicly\u2063 launched an inquiry into corruption cases linked to procurement of hardware,\u201d the Heritage\u200b Foundation\u200d scholar noted. \u201cAnd those cases, they\u2019ve said that their investigation is going back \u2063to 2017. Now, that&#8217;s significant \u200cbecause Li \u200cShangfu headed the equipment department during \u2062that\u2063 period, so, between 2017 and 2022 &#8230; like I said, there\u2019s no smoking gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Emanuel and his colleagues\u200d seem\u200d keen to underscore \u200cthe internal \u2064discord. &#8220;The PLA\u2019s most enduring problem\u200b is too big for Xi to fix,\u201d \u2062an unnamed U.S.\u200d official\u2064 told Nikkei Asia, \u200ba Japan-based outlet. \u201cThese problems have a big impact on what Xi wants to achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>regime. By targeting corruption within the Chinese People&#8217;s Liberation Army, General Secretary Xi Jinping aims to secure their loyalty and obedience. 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