Commentary On Jan. 28, Xi Jinping visited the joint battle command center of the Central Command Theater in Beijing. This gesture seemed an alert to the U.S. military at a time when Ukraine-Russian tension is high. However, the party media reports gave the opposite signal. Before the Chinese New Year, Xi Jinping inspected the Central Command Theater. The regime’s media reported that Xi was in camouflage uniform like the officers around him. In his address, Xi said to keep a good image, strengthen security, and ensure epidemic prevention and control, on top of his routine indoctrination of strong Party military ideology, strategy, construction, and combat readiness, for the new era and before the upcoming Party national meeting. As a concluding remark, Xi emphasized the troops should engage in combat readiness in order to maintain the stability of society, as well as prevention and control of the pandemic, for the Chinese …