Communist Party of China keeps tight control over military


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Beijing [China], May 15 (ANI): The Communist Party of China pays great attention to its control over military as the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 convinced the party it must keep a hold on the military so its rule would not be challenged. Josephine Ma, writing in South China Morning Post (SCMP) said that Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) is the largest in the world with two million active personnel because party and the (PLA) were entwined and in the early years of its rule, all Communist Party leaders had military experience. In 1927, chairman Mao Zedong famously said...