Xi Jinping Promotes Two More Generals After Wagner Mutiny

(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

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.