PLA’s New Leadership Appointments to Focus on the Taiwan Strait and Loyalty: Experts

(L–R) Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping gives a military flag to Wei Fenghe, commander of the Rocket Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), and Wang Jiasheng, political commissar of the Rocket Force, in Beijing on Dec. 31, 2015. Li Gang/Xinhua via AP

In the 20th rubber-stamp legislature to be held in China on Oct. 16, the regime will recompose its military leadership to focus on regional military coercion in the Taiwan Strait and loyalty said China experts.

Xi Jinping, the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), increased his control over the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) through military reform and using anti-corruption campaigns to imprison and execute those who support an opposing political faction. The PLA is the military of the CCP and not the Chinese military.