Did the Chinese military just go rogue?

[Beet]

Prior to Premier Li Keqiang's visit to India last year, and again during Xi Jinping's visit to India, both of which whose goal was to improve Sino-Indian relations, PLA forces at the LOAC (Line of Actual Control) crossed into the Indian side of the border and created a military incident which overshadowed the visit. Specifically, during Xi's just concluded visit, he promised to invest $100 billion in India over the next 5 years (compared to about $400 million in the previous decade), including helping India with the technology to build high-speed rail, financing the purchase of European A320's, and setting up manufacturing facilities in Gujarat. It makes little sense that China would be offering all of this if it wanted to make an enemy out of India. Yet the PLA invasion of the Chumur region which happened at the same time as Xi's visit overshadowed it, resulting in the cancellation of the India-China media dialogue. It's hard to see how this can be anything other than an embarrassment to Xi.

http://thediplomat.com/2014/09/chinas-military-may-have-gone-rogue-after-all/

New evidence supports the commonly held view that the Chinese military isn’t entirely in line with the party leadership. Recently, President Xi Jinping delivered a speech at the PLA headquarters in Beijing with PLA chiefs of staff present. Notably he delivered this speech following his return from his South Asia tour which featured a particularly interesting visit to India when PLA troops crossed intro India-administered Kashmir as Xi arrived in the country

Xi emphasized the need for a “smooth chain of command” and called on field commanders to “make sure all decisions from the central leadership are fully implemented.” In a particularly telling paraphrasal, Xinhua notes that Xi suggested that “Military commanders should have a better understanding of international and domestic security situations as well as the latest military development.” According to Xinhua, Fang Fenghui, chief of the PLA general staff, was in attendance, along with other senior Chinese military leaders. A statement following Xi’s speech noted that “All PLA forces should follow the instructions of President Xi Jinping, also chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and update their operations to meet new goals and missions set by the CMC.”

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If this situation is true it is a highly perilous situation. After all it is still within living memory that rogue Japanese military personnel went against the wishes of the Tokyo civilian government to stage the Mukden incident, beginning Japan's decade-long aggression against its neighbors.

[BaconBacon96]

Well, look at it this way. If there's military tensions in the area, the military's power and influence is going to increase. If relations improve, then the military's position is naturally weakened. This is obviously an attempt by the Chinese military to keep the tensions between China and India high, as they see that as beneficial to them.

[politicus]

If this situation is true it is a highly perilous situation. After all it is still within living memory that rogue Japanese military personnel went against the wishes of the Tokyo civilian government to stage the Mukden incident, beginning Japan's decade-long aggression against its neighbors.

[Panda Express]

[Beet]

New reports suggest a fascistic nutbag general is about to be promoted in China:

"President Xi Jinping will promote two People's Liberation Army generals closely associated with him in a move to deepen the anti-corruption drive and speed up reform in the world's largest fighting force.

The generals have yet to be named, but sources said Liu Yuan, the political commissar of the PLA general logistics department, and Zhang Youxia, head of the general armaments department, both stood a good chance. At least one of them will be named vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, which exercises command and control of the PLA, at a key Communist Party meeting next month, various sources said."
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"Liu is a top candidate because he is at the heart of the anti-corruption drive in the military. (Translation: He has been getting rid of his political opponents in the military, with the backing party leadership)

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1597643/pla-reshuffle-strengthens-xi-jinpings-hand-corruption-fight

What can be wrong with promoting an anti-corruption crusader like Liu Yuan? The general, unfortunately, is well known for his disturbing opinions. He publicly called the US a “whore” a decade ago, he was openly sympathetic to Osama bin Laden, and he famously declared that “man cannot survive without killing.” “Military culture is the oldest and most important wisdom of humanity,” he wrote in a preface (pdf) to Changing Our View of Culture and History, a collection of leftist essays published at the end of 2010. “Without war, where would grand unity come from?  Without force, how could fusion of the nation, the race, the culture, the south and the north be achieved?”

It’s one thing for Liu to advocate aggression to advance a racial and nationalistic ideology, yet it’s another for him to urge others to revolt, to be openly insubordinate. “Actually, the party has been repeatedly betrayed by general secretaries, both in and outside the country, recently and in the past,” he wrote in the preface. And make no mistake about what he meant, because the outspoken general has also talked about starting the Communist Party all over again. It is a small step from his words to the military believing it has the obligation to defend China by pushing aside civilians and running the country outright.

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/gordon-g-chang/chinas-militarist-general-liu-yuan-promoted