{"id":37951,"date":"2024-12-06T01:25:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=37951"},"modified":"2024-12-06T01:25:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:25:10","slug":"xi-jinping-urges-chinese-military-to-combat-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/xi-jinping-urges-chinese-military-to-combat-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping Urges Chinese Military to Combat Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the military to &#8220;combat corruption&#8221; and focus its efforts on &#8220;winning wars,&#8221; according to state media on Thursday, as Beijing tightens its measures against corruption within its armed forces.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Since taking power nearly a decade ago, President Xi has overseen a wide-ranging anti-corruption campaign across state institutions, but critics have also seen it as a way to eliminate political rivals, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Recent efforts appear to be focused on the People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA), with senior official Miao Hua last month joining a group of senior officials who lost their positions in just one year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a speech on Wednesday to the newly established &#8220;Information Support Force&#8221; unit of the PLA, Xi emphasized that the military must &#8220;strictly enforce discipline,&#8221; according to state-run CCTV. He said that the military must &#8220;combat corruption to ensure absolute loyalty, integrity, and credibility of the forces.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The &#8220;Information Support Force&#8221; was established in April, and analysts saw it as a step toward reforming the army&#8217;s management of its cyber, informational, logistical, and space operations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Xi added on Wednesday that the military should focus on &#8220;the capabilities necessary to fight and win wars.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The message from the Chinese president comes at a time when tensions in the region are rising, especially concerning Taiwan. Beijing views Taiwan, which enjoys self-rule, as part of its territory and refuses to rule out the use of force to regain control if necessary.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the military to &#8220;combat corruption&#8221; and focus its efforts on &#8220;winning wars,&#8221; according to state media on Thursday, as Beijing tightens its measures against corruption within its armed forces. Since taking power nearly a decade ago, President Xi has overseen a wide-ranging anti-corruption campaign across state institutions, but critics have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37952,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37951\/revisions\/37952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}