Trump’s Xi moment? A military purge unfolds in the US

[ad_1] “Hide your strength and bide your time” – China’s transformational Premier Deng Xiaoping once advised. He was referring to keeping external factors at bay, while rather focusing on internal development, urging patience, strategic restraint and the quiet accumulation of national power. And in Xi Jinping‘s China, the accumulation of power and control over institutions […]

PLA in peril: Xi Jinping’s purge cripples China’s military, sparks fears of combat vulnerability

[ad_1] China’s ongoing military corruption purges have created serious deficiencies in the command structure of its armed forces and are likely to have affected the readiness of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), according to a leading defence research centre. The purges, led by the Chinese president Xi Jinping, which have spanned the supreme central military […]

Xi’s military purge raises doubts about China’s readiness to go to war: Study

[ad_1] One was a general who had commanded Chinese forces arrayed against Taiwan. Another was an officer who had led the People’s Liberation Army’s training department and been praised for modernizing combat drills. A third had long served as the chief military aide to China’s leader, Xi Jinping.These men are among dozens of once-rising senior […]

The Urge to Purge: US gives immigration officials discretionary powers to determine if social media posts are ‘anti-American’

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump (PTI) TOI Correspondent from Washington: The Trump administration has announced it will undertake broad discretionary screening of social media posts for “anti-American” views while adjudicating applications for visa, green card, and citizenship. In an updated guidance issued on Tuesday, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the nodal agency in […]