#PRC; Instability in the CCP. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
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#PRC; Instability in the CCP. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
https://www.newsweek.com/china-rocket-force-changes-nuclear-xi-jinping-1816589?amp=1
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| 0:18.8 | This is CBS. I'm the world. I'm John Baxter with Gordon Chiang at Gordon G Chiang, |
| 0:29.8 | my colleague and co-host. You all recall the missing foreign minister, Chin Gang, |
| 0:35.6 | previously ambassador to the United States from the People's Republic of China, |
| 0:39.7 | and then gone, and not only gone physically, but erased from the record keeping |
| 0:46.4 | in the People's Republic of China. Well, more names are gone. Two generals, |
| 0:51.5 | generals recently identified with the rocket forces gone and replaced. |
| 0:56.5 | We welcome Charles Burton of the MacDonald-Lory Institute to comment on this Chinese Communist |
| 1:03.2 | Party habit of deciding you no longer exist from the record books or your job or to our |
| 1:10.8 | understanding on the planet Earth. Charles, it's just a long practice of the Chinese |
| 1:16.4 | Party. When they say never mind, that means you're erased from the books. Good evening to you. |
| 1:22.2 | Good evening. Well, I mean, this is unusual that there's no viable explanation being given what |
| 1:27.7 | so ever, except that, you know, they may have been involved in corruption. But, |
| 1:33.6 | Wang Ho being the commander of the rocket force, and at the same time, the political commissar, |
| 1:40.1 | Xu Xisheng, were both raised to the rank of general, which is, you know, the highest rank |
| 1:49.0 | you can have while serving, while the previous two guys were Li Yu Chao and Xu Zhong Bo were |
| 1:55.9 | released. It's unusual to see a purge of both the commander and the political commissar at the |
| 2:02.4 | same time, and also unusual that Wang comes from the navy and Xu from the air force. So in other |
| 2:10.7 | words, they're replacing the commander and political commissar of the rocket force with people |
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