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[โ€“] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Xi has been purging all the top military officials to further consolidate his power and this is just the latest victim and excuse

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Lessons are doomed to be forgotten. In this case the lesson of the Mao era, that concentration of power in one person always ends badly.