Xi says military must obey Communist Party as leadership reshuffle nears

(CNN) Chinese President Xi Jinping has emphasized the Communist Party's control over the military as he prepares for a key leadership reshuffle later this year. Speaking Tuesday at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Xi said the military should "carry forward and implement the Party's absolute leadership." "As comrade Mao Zedong once pointed out, our principle is to have the Party command the military, not the military command the Party," Xi said. His words came after a major display of military force Sunday in a grand parade at a base in Inner Mongolia, on China's northern border, in which 12,000 troops, and more than Read more...