In the latest shake-up within China’s top leadership, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced on Oct. 16 the expulsion of nine senior military officers, including one of the two vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and a member of the CCP’s powerful Politburo.
The announcement was made days before the CCP’s Fourth Plenum of the 20th Central Committee, scheduled for Oct. 20–23 in Beijing. The timing and scale of the shake-up have fueled speculation that the CCP’s political system may be entering a period of dramatic change.
The Fourth Plenum is a closed-door meeting in which 370 senior CCP officials will carve out the Party’s agenda for the next five years….
As Military Purges Deepen, CCP’s Fourth Plenum to Test Xi Jinping’s Grip on Power: Analysts
