Xi Gin Ping - Lecture notes 9 PDF

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He is a "crown prince" rather than a "princeling" A "princeling" is someone who's father or grandfather served in the revolution o Xi's father was political commissar of the northwestern field army that saved Mau o However, Mau purged his father (before eventually being brought back) o Xi was a rusticated youth  He was taken from his family at age 14  Had he stayed in the city he might have been killed by the Red Guard  Many of Xi's generation became hedonistic because they saw all the horrible things done to their family  However, others became reder than red almost as PTSD o However he inherits his father's connections  One of the first students allowed to go back to university when the university system was reopened  When Mau is gone and Deng is in power, his father is rehabilitated  His father gets him placed as secretary to the general Biao  Xi gets to watch Deng trim the military and learns from the master about how to manipulate power Xi's wife is in charge of the Academy and has been a major in the military since 1980 o She is a famous singer and some say that she in really in charge of the military o She puts on concerts and gets to talk to generals, so she was able to build a report on everyone inside o Knows who's corrupt and who's not o When they married, she was more famous than she was His first wife he married when he was in the PLA o She was the daughter of the ambassador to the UK o He needed to choose between being a top general and a top politician o Going into politics meant going into the countryside o She did not want to join him, so he divorced her o She is still alive somewhere in UK His chance comes when the political secretary of Shanghai is charged with corruption o He takes over because he is considered not offensive to anyone o Xi becomes the first leader appointed by his peers rather than the old guard Why he was able to consolidate power better than others o Unlike the Hu Gin Tau situation, Xi was in control of the PLA 2 years before he even became the General Secretary o Liyuan levels accusations of corruption in the system  General Gu was getting kickbacks on selling PLA property o

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When he was arrested, it became clear that higher generals were helping him do it  Everyone at the top benefitted from corruption, including himself  He starts wearing a military outfit, not just the Mau tunic, showing that he is the commander in chief of the armed forced, and blurs politics and military Xi's principles of new information warfare Change our mindset of executing a campaign with a single armed service (need more than just ground forces) Change fixed mindsets of mechanized warfare and establish the ideological concept of information warfare Change our mindset of safeguarding traditional territory Foster the thinking and perception of an integrated combined service campaign involving multiple services Change the mindset of guarding entrenched departmental services Policy At the 70s anniversary victory parade he announces reduction in size of PLA from 2.3 million to 1 (affects the ground troops from 73% to 60%) Changes the military region system  There are 7 of them and follow provincial boundaries (internally focused and designed for the civil war)  System lasted so long because provincial leaders were making a lot of money from this  US uses strategic command structures that are outward looking, so he does the same  Northern Theatre Command deals with Korea  Eastern Theatre Command deals with Taiwan  Southern Theatre Command deals with South China Sea Strategic rocket forces become very important because they deal with space and cyber...