Xi’s efforts backfired: the media found out the reason for the massive purge in the Chinese army

The massive crackdown on China’s military comes after President Xi Jinping became aware of widespread corruption that undermined his efforts to modernize the military. Bloomberg reported this on Saturday, January 6, citing its US intelligence sources.

According to the publication, corruption in China’s Rocket Force and throughout the country’s defense industrial base is so extensive that US officials now believe that Xi is unlikely to take more major military action in the coming years than he already does.

The US assessment cited several examples of the corruption’s impact, including missiles fueled with water instead of fuel and large missile silo fields in western China with covers that did not work to allow the missiles to be effective. launch, one of the people said.

Bloomberg said US intelligence says corruption in China’s military has undermined confidence in its overall capabilities, particularly when it comes to its missile force, and has also held back some of Xi’s key modernization priorities.

Over the past six months, more than a dozen senior defense officials have been arrested as part of the investigation, in what could be the country’s largest military crackdown in modern Chinese history.

Xi Jinping has spent billions of dollars to modernize the military by 2027. Central to this process is the creation of a missile force that will play a key role in any invasion by self-governing Taiwan.

Let’s remember that in November, Xi Jinping said that China will not attack Taiwan in the next few years. At the same time, he continued to declare the inevitable “unification” of Taiwan with mainland China.

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