{"id":14114,"date":"2025-03-01T03:02:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T03:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=14114"},"modified":"2025-03-01T03:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T03:02:41","slug":"military-delegates-lose-sway-at-chinas-signature-political-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=14114","title":{"rendered":"Military delegates lose sway at China\u2019s signature political gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Stay informed with free updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Simply sign up to the <!-- -->Chinese politics &amp; policy<!-- --> myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=d9e16a83-13bb-42fa-b1f6-a2778bf35660&amp;concept-id=02249f44-ac1f-48d6-bba5-820471c18ca5\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The size of the military delegation to China\u2019s rubber stamp parliament is falling and may shrink further, as leader Xi Jinping\u2019s purges cast a shadow over Beijing\u2019s biggest annual political event. <\/p>\n<p>The military delegation at the annual plenary session of the National People\u2019s Congress, which opens on Wednesday, will number 267, down from the 281 appointed in 2023. Fourteen have been removed because of corruption investigations. <\/p>\n<p>Of the 2,997 appointed to the NPC in 2023, 2,942 remain. <\/p>\n<p>The military delegation \u2014 including representatives from the People\u2019s Liberation Army and the People\u2019s Armed Police \u2014 has suffered a greater reduction in size than any other provincial delegation, government or industry segment represented in the NPC and an advisory body, the Chinese People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), according to an FT review of the delegate list, NPC announcements and official media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The data underscores that Xi\u2019s crackdown on what the Chinese Communist party commonly calls \u201cdiscipline violations\u201d is taking a heavier toll on the armed forces than other parts of society.<\/p>\n<p>The corruption purges come as Communist party leaders are expected to prioritise the economy this year in what is known as the \u201ctwo sessions\u201d \u2014 the CPPCC and NPC annual meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing will be concerned that rising US tariffs will hit China\u2019s booming exports, which in the past two years have offset a deep property slump in the domestic economy. <\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s leaders are expected to announce another ambitious GDP growth target of 5 per cent this year to be fuelled by larger stimulus measures. <\/p>\n<p>But the removal of military personnel from the NPC and CPPCC due to anti-corruption investigations is a reminder of Xi\u2019s longer-term focus on optimising China\u2019s military as the country competes with the US for dominance around Taiwan and the South China Sea. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reduced numbers of the military delegation will not have an impact on the NPC, but they certainly highlight Xi\u2019s continued push to assert his control over the armed forces,\u201d said Lin Ying-yu, a professor at Taiwan\u2019s Tamkang University who researches the Chinese military.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s increase of official military spending, expected to be included in the budget on March 5, and Xi\u2019s address to military delegates on March 7 are the key military events. <\/p>\n<p>Despite disrupting the leading echelons of the entire PLA, the crackdown has had no noticeable effect on the military\u2019s capabilities and operational tempo. The army continues to raise the pressure on Taiwan and deploys to locations ever farther from China. <\/p>\n<p>Beijing removed 10 military NPC delegates prior to last year\u2019s two sessions after Xi began to crack down on the Rocket Force, the PLA arm responsible for missiles including nuclear ones, and the weapons procurement bureaucracy. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since last March, four more top military officials have lost their status as NPC delegates after getting entangled in the widening investigations: former defence minister Li Shangfu and former PLA deputy commander Deng Zhiping were recalled in September. <\/p>\n<p>In December, Deng\u2019s predecessor as PLA deputy commander You Haitao and Li Pengcheng, former navy commander in the PLA\u2019s southern military region, were stripped of their mandates, too.<\/p>\n<p>The PLA\u2019s presence at next year\u2019s plenary session is likely to be even smaller: Miao Hua, the Chinese military\u2019s top political commissar, was ensnared in the crackdown when he was suspended from his duties as a member of the Central Military Commission, the organ headed by Xi that holds the top command over the armed forces, and head of the CMC\u2019s political work department in November. The NPC has not announced his removal as a delegate, but Miao is not expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Observers are watching out for three more military delegates who have recently disappeared from public view: Li Qiaoming and Wang Chunning, the commanders of the PLA and the People\u2019s Armed Police, as well as Yuan Huazhi, the PLA navy\u2019s political commissar, were absent in key meetings in December and January, according to Chinese state media footage. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d9e16a83-13bb-42fa-b1f6-a2778bf35660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese politics &amp; policy myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Military delegates lose sway at China\u2019s signature political gathering | inFundPros<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Chinese politics &amp; 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