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Xi Jinping demands loyalty from armed forces

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Xi Jinping wants the military to get its act together. He didn't mince words when meeting with delegates from the armed forces to the National People’s Congress on March 7:

“The military is the one that holds the gun, and there absolutely must be no one in the armed forces who is of two minds towar...