The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) top leader Xi Jinping promoted two generals in Beijing on June 28, four days after the Wagner mutiny.
The two new generals are Zheng Xuan, political commissar of the Northern Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and Ling Huanxin, political commissar of the Academy of Military Sciences, according to CCP’s mouthpiece Xinhua News.
General is the highest rank for serving officers in China. The CCP’s top leaders use the rank as a carrot to obtain loyalty from their subordinates and purging as a stick-warning to their political rivals.
Xi has been promoting his own generals and purging generals promoted by Jiang and Hu in the name of anti-graft….