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Their disappearance and now replacement comes amid a string of announcements about new anti-corruption measures in the armed forces and a renewed push to ensure the PLA’s absolute loyalty to the party and to Mr Xi himself. The shake-up marks the biggest irregular change among military leaders since Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong, former deputy chairs of the Central Military Commission, were ousted more than a decade ago and prosecuted on corruption charges in 2014. That case was part of a broad purge reasserting the party’s absolute control over the armed forces, which was slipping when Mr Xi came to...
