Xi Jinping’s zero-fail mission for China’s military: total loyalty, no corruption

Chinese President Xi Jinping has again sought to shore up the military’s ideological defences, demanding absolute loyalty to the Communist Party from all ranks, just weeks after the country’s top general came under investigation for corruption. “The fight against corruption must be resolutely advanced” and the party’s leadership over the military must be “comprehensively strengthened”, Xi told the NPC deputies, according to state news agency Xinhua. Xi, who heads the Central Military Commission (CMC), the military’s top decision-making body, told the delegates that since 2012 the party had deepened “political rectification” within the armed forces with “unprecedented resolve and intensity”…