This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel with my colleague,

Victoria Herkzeg of the geopolitical futures, a subscription site. She's an analyst.

She's in the Danube River Valley, to be romantic about it in the summertime.

And the Danube is a river that divided civilization called Rome

from the savages called the Dacians and the Huns and everyone else who is now dominating

the conversation. So we're putting Eurasia on the map by talking about what comes next

for the People's Republic of China. And that means we have to check with the sharp end of the stick.

That would be the PLA.

Yo Xia.

Who is that, Fiki?

Yeah, Zhang Yo Xia is the vice chairman of the People's Military Commission in China.

So he's a prominent military figure.

And he's now rumored to have gained control over the PLA.

And he's also rumored to be making decisions on who is to stay and who is to leave the PLA and the Chinese Communist Party.

There have been a number of names, and you have some of them here in your column, who have been removed from positions of authority at the PLA, the PLA Navy, some of the

political officers, I think, as well, overall commanders, military targets, who were nominated

and advanced by Xi Jinping in the last 14 years.

I recall she showing up in different uniforms all the time, and there would be the PLA not swearing allegiance to the party,

but swearing allegiance to Xi personally.

It didn't make any sense that the people he'd put in.

He was removing.

So is Zhang Yoh Shah the explanation?

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