2023-09-27 21:04:21
The People’s Liberation Army is Xi Jinping’s target. The “helmsman” wishes to modernize it and purify it of all corruption. LI GANG/Xinhua via AFP
STORY – The disappearance of the Minister of Defense, after the sidelining of several senior officers, fuels speculation about the reality of the power of the Chinese president.
Correspondent in Asia
Immaculate white shirt, inky black pants, Xi Jinping points to the horizon with an august gesture, along the “grand canal», tirelessly built by the imperial dynasties between the “Blue” and “Yellow” rivers, a centuries-old symbol of the unity of China. The austere executives drink in the president’s words on September 20, in Zhejiang province, along the bleak waters of the largest artificial river ever built by man. A deceptive calm, camouflaging the turbulent currents which have been shaking the communist apparatus internally for several weeks, in the midst of an economic slowdown and standoff with America.
The “disappearance» mysterious by the Minister of Defense, Li Shangfu, for almost a month, after the dismissal without explanation of his Foreign Affairs counterpart, Qin Gang, another faithful of Xi, distills an unusual climate at the top of the second world power . It fuels speculation about possible resistance to centralizing control…
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