Xi Jinping visited Chinas newest military branch last thursday making some straight-forward statements about discipline and info-warfare (which became a hot topic in modern conflicts). The army needs to be “absolutely loyal absolutely pure and absolutely reliable“ as he put it
Since early last year the Peoples Liberation Army dealt with wide-spread clean-up: nine PLA generals and some defense-sector bosses got kicked out from their parliament seats. Just last week another high-ranking commander got suspended due to serious rule-breaking
The new info-warfare unit created back in april reports straight to the top military board – its a big deal in Chinas army re-organization since 2015. This cyber-focused force which used to be part of Strategic Support Force got separated into its own thing: now its main job is protecting military networks from outside attacks
Xi made it clear that network systems are super-important in todays battles. The new unit called Peoples Liberation Army Information Support Force isnt just for show – its a real combat force he said while checking out their HQ. Its part of Chinas push to get better at non-traditional fighting methods