Jon Czin, a foreign policy scholar with deep China policy experience; Sheena Chestnut Greitens, an expert on coercive institutions; Taylor Fravel, a security scholar on PLA operations; John Culver, a longtime analyst of the PLA; and Brian Hart, a China studies moderator. They dissect Xi’s wide military purges, the timeline and scope of removals, effects on PLA readiness and decisionmaking, promotion tradeoffs between loyalty and competence, and implications for succession and military structure.
