CHINA-PLA

 The Hongkong-based South China Morning Post reported on December 28, 2015, that in a signed commentary in the PLA Daily published on December 27, 2015, recently, Cui Lianjie, a Deputy Director at the PLA Nanjing Institute of Politics, said that President Xi Jinping’s reforms of the military were aimed at consolidating the Communist Party’s control over the armed forces. He accused unnamed hostile forces of attempting to “pull the military away” from the party’s banner. Cui Lianjie wrote that “The party’s absolute leadership of the army is not an abstract principle, it has a set of institutional arrangements to make sure this is the case,” and that consolidating regional commands and reorganising army headquarters were in line with that goal. 

Xinhua separately reported that during a visit to the PLA Daily last week, Xi Jinping stressed that the newspaper should uphold the Communist Party’s absolute leadership over the army and maintain a high degree of consistency with the party leadership. It quoted him as saying: “Military propaganda work and an excellent public opinion environment must be created for advancing the national defence and military reforms.”
 






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