Xi consolidates power in PLA by promoting protégés to full generals
Just before China’s Army Day on August 1, President and Central Military Commission (CMC) Chairman Xi Jinping elevated ten senior People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers…
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Xi seeks to prevent Tianjin disaster from overshadowing his ‘coronation ceremony’
Officially, the military parade at Tiananmen Square on September 3 marks the 70th anniversary of the “Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against…
Parallel goods trade protestors blamed for tourism, retail downturn
A protest against parallel goods traders in northern Sheung Shui on Sunday, the first of its kind since March, has provided a convenient excuse for…
President Xi to beef up PLA’s Navy and Cyber-warfare Divisions
While presiding over China’s largest-scale military parade on September 3, President Xi Jinping announced with big fanfare the demobilization of 300,000 troops from the People’s…