China’s leadership has quietly filled a long-vacant command post overseeing the capital’s security weeks before two senior military figures were abruptly purged. This unusual personnel move may signal advance preparations for an internal power struggle, analysts told The Epoch Times
In early January, Chen Yuan, previously commander of the Shanghai Armed Police Corps, was transferred to a leadership role in the Beijing Garrison Command, a strategically vital unit responsible for safeguarding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) core political institutions. The post had been vacant for nearly a year.
