China's Military Has a Discipline Problem. Here Is How Xi Jinping Is Trying to Fix It.

November 12, 2017 Topic: Security Region: Asia Tags: ChinaMilitaryPLAPeople Liberation ArmyPRCXi Jinping

China's Military Has a Discipline Problem. Here Is How Xi Jinping Is Trying to Fix It.

Instilling discipline is critical to the PLA’s ability to achieve progress in its current cycle of reform and modernization.

Joel Wuthnow is a research fellow in the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs at the National Defense University. Phillip C. Saunders is director of the center. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and are not an official policy or position of the National Defense University, the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.

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