Insider: CCP Military Probe Evolves Around Xi Jinping’s Loyalists Colluding With Jiang Faction

The Rocket Force corruption case has led Mr. Xi to the realization that ‘an entirely loyal military Xi faction does not exist,’ he said.

Security members walk past an entrance during the closing ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 10, 2024. Jade Gao / AFP

The military corruption scandal, notably within the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force, continues to evolve. The probe found Jiang Mianheng, the son of the late and former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin, has formed a political gang among the corrupt military leaders, many of whom were leaders promoted by CCP leader Xi Jinping, according to Yuan Hongbing, an Australia-based scholar holding connections with the upper echelons of the CCP, in an exclusive interview with the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times.

He said the ongoing fallout from cases surrounding the former foreign minister Qin Gang and former defense minister Li Shangfu has implicated an increasingly broad range of high-ranking officials in the CCP military. Many of these senior officials purged are predominantly Mr. Xi’s loyalists in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Defense, the Rocket Force, the Strategic Support Force, and military-industrial enterprises.