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===Military purges===

===Military purges===

:{{See also|People's Liberation Army}}

:{{See also|People's Liberation Army}}

According to China expert Ian Easton. in January 2016, the CCP launched a sweeping military reform and reorganization program. It was the first time a purge like this had happened in Communist China’s 70-year history.  To succeed, Xi fired, imprisoned, and, in several cases, executed, well over 100 high-ranking generals in front of their peers.<ref>https://youtu.be/Se_r1qwWMMA</ref>

According to China expert Ian Easton. in January 2016, the CCP launched a sweeping military reform and reorganization program. It was the first time a purge like this had happened in Communist China’s 70-year history.  To succeed, Xi fired, imprisoned, and, in several cases, executed, well over 100 high-ranking generals in front of their peers.<ref>https://youtu.be/Se_r1qwWMMA</ref> In July 2019, the CCP released a threatening defense white paper that read,  

 

In July 2019, the CCP released a threatening defense white paper that read,  

{{quotebox-float|“Solving the Taiwan problem and achieving complete national unification is in the fundamental interest of the Chinese race. It is obviously necessary for achieving the Chinese race’s great renewal... China must be unified and obviously will be... If anyone splits Taiwan off from China, China’s military will pay any price to totally defeat them.”<ref>http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2019/10/28/2003724771</ref>}}

{{quotebox-float|“Solving the Taiwan problem and achieving complete national unification is in the fundamental interest of the Chinese race. It is obviously necessary for achieving the Chinese race’s great renewal... China must be unified and obviously will be... If anyone splits Taiwan off from China, China’s military will pay any price to totally defeat them.”<ref>http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2019/10/28/2003724771</ref>}}