The rhetoric from both sides and Beijing’s recent maneuvers have stoked fears that an attempted Chinese military takeover of Taiwan could be next on the horizon.
Besides that joint command experience, He possesses another key attribute sought in top PLA leadership – field experience in hostile situations.
Carl Schuster, a former director of operations at the US Pacific Command’s Joint Intelligence Center, said He was one of Xi’s “action men” on the military commission.
Zhang served on the previous military commission and has been retained and promoted despite being past the unofficial retirement age of 68.
There’s just too much work to be done with Xi’s military modernization to achieve good odds of success, they said.
Persons:
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Organizations:
CNN, Central Military Commission, Communist Party’s National, People’s Liberation Army, PLA, Chinese Communist Party, China Program, Institute of Defense, Strategic Studies, Theater Command, Eastern Theater Command, US Air Force Air, China Aerospace Studies Institute, People’s Armed Police, Pacific Command’s Joint Intelligence Center, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Center, Chinese Military Affairs, US National Defense University, Party, US Air University
Locations:
China, Taiwan, Beijing, Taiwan Strait, Asia, Singapore, India