Joel Wuff
Guest from the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University who provides analysis on the PLA; transcript lists views as his own and not representing the U.S. government.
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Feb 19, 2026 • 59min
Power, Paranoia, and the People's Liberation Army
Joel Wuff, analyst at the National Defense University; Peter Mattis, China-focused former CIA analyst and Jamestown Foundation president; John Zinn, Brookings China politics specialist; Dennis Wilder, veteran CIA China analyst now in academia. They unpack PLA purges, the political control of the military, implications for readiness and corruption, and how leadership turnover reshapes signaling and risk calculations abroad.
