S8 Ep1108: PLA Purges and Xi Jinping's Power Consolidation. Gordon Chang and Piero Tozzi. Xi Jinping's provocative missile launches are linked to internal instability and purges within the Central Military Commission. By creating international tension, Xi forces com
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🗓️ 9 July 2026
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PLA Purges and Xi Jinping's Power Consolidation. Gordon Chang and Piero Tozzi. Xi Jinping's provocative missile launches are linked to internal instability and purges within the Central Military Commission. By creating international tension, Xi forces competing party factions to rally behind his leadership. While he controls the propaganda and state security apparatus, his control over the People's Liberation Army remains incomplete. (4)
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| 0:25.6 | This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. I'm John Bachelor with Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, and Piero Tocci of the First |
| 0:51.7 | America First Institute is here with us, and we're looking at an events over these last |
| 0:55.2 | days that require interpretation. |
| 0:57.8 | Piero, for reasons that are as yet completely unexplained to my satisfaction, the People's |
| 1:04.5 | Republic of China's PLA Navy chose, during RIMPAC, during a joint Russian Chinese exercise, military exercise off the coast of Asia, |
| 1:14.8 | during the day before NATO, to fire a 10,000 kilometer missile into the nuclear free zone of the Pacific, |
| 1:22.5 | overflying Philippines, Japan, and all the island's sovereignty is in between, mostly associated with the United States, including Australia, a puzzle. |
| 1:32.7 | Now, the puzzle doesn't have anything to do with whatsoever. |
| 1:36.5 | The purging that's being going on at the military commission in the Navy, in the Army, she firing general after general that he advanced over the course |
| 1:47.2 | of his three terms, near four terms now. However, the puzzle is, does it connect? Did they fire the |
| 1:54.3 | missile? And how does that make any sense that he's purged so many generals and leaders and now |
| 2:00.8 | he's firing a missile. |
| 2:02.2 | I can't put these things together. Can you help me? |
| 2:07.1 | Well, you know, I think in some ways there's a consistency because you've seen this very aggressive |
| 2:13.7 | attitude, whether it's wolf warrior diplomacy, but also directed towards the Philippines, |
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