The Pentagon's annual report on China's military highlights corruption within the ranks, suggesting it could impede Beijing's 2027 modernization ambitions.
WASHINGTON - Corruption in China's military may have disrupted its progress towards its 2027 military modernization goals, the Pentagon said in its annual report on Beijing's military that was released on Wednesday.Since last year, China's military has undergone a sweeping anti-corruption purge and last month the defense ministry said a top-ranking military official had been suspended and was under investigation for 'serious violations of discipline.
'The wide-ranging Pentagon report said that between July and December 2023, at least 15 high-ranking Chinese military officers and defense industry executives were removed from their posts.'In 2023, the PLA experienced a new wave of corruption-related investigations and removals of senior leaders which may have disrupted its progress toward stated 2027 modernization goals,' the report said, using an acronym for the People's Liberation Army (PLA).U.S. officials, including the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, have said that Chinese President Xi Jinping had ordered his military to be ready to conduct an invasion of Taiwan by 2027.China's official 2027 modernization goals include accelerating the integration of intelligence, mechanization and other tools while boosting the speed of modernization in military theories, personnel, weapons and equipment, the Pentagon said.The removal of the 15 senior officials was likely the 'tip of the iceberg,' Ely Ratner, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, told a Washington think tank after the report's release. China's leadership would not be taking such extreme anticorruption measures unless they felt the PLA's operational effectiveness was being impacted, he said.'I don't think this is just ... some guys are taking some money and putting it in their pocket, or maybe their banquets, they're buying too expensive whiskey,' Ratner said at the Center for Strategic and International Studie
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