Recent PLA Daily reporting on Zhang Youxia’s purge has prompted me to revisit the issue in a follow-up analysis just published in @ChinaBriefJT Notes at @JamestownTweets.
These materials largely align with my observations and inferences from my January 26 analysis, linking Zhang Youxia’s removal to preparations for the PLA’s 2027 centenary goal—an important political agenda for Xi Jinping. Such defiance by Zhang is framed by Chinese official discourse as undermining political awareness and as trampling the CMC Chairperson Responsibility System. Many thanks again to @Arranjnh for the timely, spot-on edits.
Executive Summary:
(1) Recent PLA Daily articles include additional details on Zhang Youxia’s purge and reveal differences between Zhang Youxia and Xi Jinping over the pace of force building, especially in relation to the 2027 PLA centenary goal, a key political priority of Xi.
(2) The PLA Daily explicitly links the push to achieve the centenary goal to Zhang Youxia’s purge and reiterates that Zhang and Liu had negative effects on the PLA’s combat capability development.
(3) The PLA Daily stresses that the entire force must recognize strategic design, pathways, and target tasks as an established consensus that no one may question, and it underscores that all military planning must submit to political leadership.
(4) Past Chinese official information shows that joint operations capability is emphasized in the 2027 goal, but joint training under Zhang Youxia’s leadership lagged behind expectations and carried political implications of defying Xi Jinping’s orders.
Follow-up analysis (February 3): jamestown.org/more-informati…
Initial analysis (January 26): jamestown.org/zhang-youxias-…
These materials largely align with my observations and inferences from my January 26 analysis, linking Zhang Youxia’s removal to preparations for the PLA’s 2027 centenary goal—an important political agenda for Xi Jinping. Such defiance by Zhang is framed by Chinese official discourse as undermining political awareness and as trampling the CMC Chairperson Responsibility System. Many thanks again to @Arranjnh for the timely, spot-on edits.
Executive Summary:
(1) Recent PLA Daily articles include additional details on Zhang Youxia’s purge and reveal differences between Zhang Youxia and Xi Jinping over the pace of force building, especially in relation to the 2027 PLA centenary goal, a key political priority of Xi.
(2) The PLA Daily explicitly links the push to achieve the centenary goal to Zhang Youxia’s purge and reiterates that Zhang and Liu had negative effects on the PLA’s combat capability development.
(3) The PLA Daily stresses that the entire force must recognize strategic design, pathways, and target tasks as an established consensus that no one may question, and it underscores that all military planning must submit to political leadership.
(4) Past Chinese official information shows that joint operations capability is emphasized in the 2027 goal, but joint training under Zhang Youxia’s leadership lagged behind expectations and carried political implications of defying Xi Jinping’s orders.
Follow-up analysis (February 3): jamestown.org/more-informati…
Initial analysis (January 26): jamestown.org/zhang-youxias-…
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