#PRC: #PLA: Recruiting and retaining struggles as well as missing chiefs. Victoria Herczegh, GeopoliticalFutures.com @GPFutures
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🗓️ 17 February 2024
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#PRC: #PLA: Recruiting and retaining struggles as well as missing chiefs. Victoria Herczegh, GeopoliticalFutures.com @GPFutures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/corruption-and-low-morale-still-plague-chinas-military/
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| 0:00.0 | This is a |
| 0:05.2 | This is CBS High in the world. I'm John Bachelor. The Washington Post reporting the |
| 0:10.3 | former foreign minister Chin Gong a rising star in the Chinese Communist Party, |
| 0:15.0 | not only left his post but also seems to have left all photographs behind, |
| 0:20.0 | airbrushed out of the memories of the Chinese Communist Party these many years. |
| 0:25.3 | But that is not all of the story. |
| 0:28.2 | There's also men leaving their posts in the Army and in the defense ministry. |
| 0:35.3 | And stories about the PLA, the People's Liberation Army, |
| 0:40.5 | having shortfalls in recruiting. |
| 0:43.0 | Also, there is the question in the Navy, the PLA Navy, about quality of ships from the |
| 0:49.0 | massive shipyards and in the PLA Air Force the type of training they're conducting. In other words, we've got |
| 0:57.4 | across the landscape questions about the the the the the famous Chinese military, I welcome Victoria Herzeg of Geopolitical futures, a subscription site |
| 1:09.4 | I highly recommend. |
| 1:11.1 | She is in Budapest writing about the PLA what we can discern from changes in leadership. |
| 1:18.7 | The rocket forces had a change in leadership some months ago. |
| 1:22.1 | Now an important technician, scientist, has left in some |
| 1:27.1 | fashion the rocket forces. What is this? What's driving it? Victoria, a very good evening to you, thank you for this. |
| 1:34.0 | She Jin Bing, early on in his now 10 years plus, I recall making a show of appearing in different |
| 1:42.0 | uniforms, different settings, the Navy uniform, the Army |
| 1:46.4 | uniform, the Air Force uniform, and gathering with military men around him. |
| 1:51.2 | And subsequent to that, we learned that they were not only swearing |
| 1:54.4 | allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party the PLA works for the CCP but to she |
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