What the Hell Is Going On: WTH Is Going on with the CCP Purge in China? John Garnaut Explains.

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Kremlinology has made its way east as analysts try to make sense of dramatic PLA purges under Xi Jinping. The CCP regime appears to be clearing house, but what does it all mean? Should there be a reconsideration of a Taiwan contingency for China? Is China even equipped to make threats against its neighbors? At […]

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute.
0:03.1	If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share.
0:07.1	Thanks for listening. Here's our show.
0:08.7	What the hell is going on?
0:10.5	What's really going on?
0:12.0	We said, what the hell happened?
0:13.5	You don't have to know what the hell is on it.
0:15.6	They see what's going on.
0:16.7	I don't know what's going on.
0:18.0	What is going on?
0:20.0	We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on.
0:29.6	Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka.
0:31.4	And I'm Mark Tiesin.
0:32.6	Welcome to our podcast.
0:34.1	What the hell is going on?
0:36.1	Mark?
0:36.6	What the hell is going on is there? What the hell is going on?
0:38.1	Is there's a purge, a massive purge in Beijing.
0:41.7	Xi Jinping or Sieging Ping, as I discovered in this podcast as the proper pronunciation,
0:46.4	has absolutely just taken a hammer to a large majority of the leadership of the people's liberation army and the members
0:57.8	of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee. And everybody in Washington is speculating
1:04.1	about what the hell is going on. And so we decided, we need to find out what the hell is going on.
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