The news came not with a bang, but with a cup of preparation.
At this time, analysts, jubilant diplomats and anonymous began to repeat the same idea with a mixture of disbelief and silence.
The Central Military Commission (CMC) now reverted to a “junta” of two: You are Jinping and General in charge of discipline in the People’s Liberation Army.
The latter mastered his work by directing with discipline and anticipating his future destiny.
The organization intended to send soldiers has been converted into a space where only one general lives out of six who have been here for four years.
Reviews in China and beyond are no less.
President Xi Jinping bows during the Martyrs’ Day parade on September 30.
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The occurrence in CMC is not a coincidence or the sum of individual scandals. It is the logical consequence of a political project that has been moving in one direction for years: the absolute concentration of power in the hands of Xi Jinping, including the risk of destroying the country’s most powerful institution.
By 2023, China’s military has undergone a purge that can only be explained as “anti-corruption”.
First, check the Power of Cohetes and the shopping machine.
Furthermore, the political-military system is responsible for guaranteeing ideological loyalty.
Finally, submit your own tips. Vice-presidents, jefes de Estado Mayor, ministers de Defence. All of them disappeared from the organizational chart as defective pieces, as we learned from time to time Mao.
As a result, at the beginning of 2026, the CMC is reduced to a caricature: Xi Jinping is a lonely general.
“They don’t fear conventional military defeat. They fear something far more personal: the autonomy of the military establishment.”
General exam e.g Zhang Shengminsecretary of the Military Disciplinary Inspection Commission. He does not direct operations, plan campaigns, develop doctrine.
Its mission is different: to supervise, investigate and punish. Being the last survivor is not a coincidence, but it may be a symptom Beria castrense.
El leitmotif This decision is transparent. Xi is not afraid of a conventional military defeat. He fears something even more personal: the autonomy of the military establishment.
The history of the Communist Party is marked by recurring trauma (Lin BiaoTianjin, the regional military “reinos”) and Xi took this lesson to the letter.
About politics part of a simple assumption. A powerful general is by definition a political risk. Better than average and land generals than someone competent with their own reds.
Better yet, no one.
When Xi controls the military group without soldiers, if in some cases it is not possible to organize a coup because the surviving military level (territorial citizens and armies) cannot be sent to the side of the People’s Liberation Army.
The implications run deep in China’s domestic politics. You don’t want to worry about any internal brakes on Xi Jinping.
Shortly thereafter, the People’s Liberation Army can continue to function thanks to the Theater Commandos and a well-established bureaucratic machinery.
Xi Jinping was reviewed in the tropics in Beijing during a parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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But in the middle of the square, the mensaje is devastating: obedience is punished, jealousy is not protected. In such a system, none of the decisions are made without sheathing swords, none of them innovate without express permission, and none of them take risks that are not well decided from the top.
It may even be that some of the more capable generals choose to retrace your steps and avoid the climb.
And so we come to the end of this interim story with a scene worthy of a political satire. In China’s most powerful broadcast room, surrounded by portraits, inscriptions and silence, there is only one general.
No maps or new divisions. If you limit yourself to purposeful rules and order detenciones.
It’s the last one because the function isn’t dispatched until you’re sure no one else can do it. CMC transformed into Xi Jinping’s own. A lot of control, a little confidence and a power you don’t know about counterweights or brakes, a shot aimed at Taiwan’s head until a single man decides to open up.
The Amazonian Indians usually say that their wool is hairy, but they are most afraid of the Montblancs, who sign sheets with a large amount of gramaj.
The experience of Venezuela, Russia, Iran and many other countries shows that the systematic elimination of the opposition only leads to corruption and a lack of self-criticism.
In the end, the one who will finally reveal the country that is the best.
*** Yago Rodríguez is a military and geopolitical analyst and director of The Political Room.
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