HONG KONG ¨C In 1938, in the midst of a long campaign to bring China under Communist Party rule, revolutionary leader Mao Zedong wrote: ¡°Whoever has an army has power.¡±
Xi Jinping, Mao¡¯s latest successor, has taken that dictum to heart.
He has donned camouflage fatigues, installed himself as commander-in-chief and taken control of the 2 million-strong Chinese military, the People¡¯s Liberation Army. It is the biggest overhaul of the PLA since Mao led it to victory in the nation¡¯s civil war and founded the People¡¯s Republic in 1949.
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