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Xi Jinping tells military brass to straighten up

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Xi Jinping's purge of the military is far from done. On April 9, Xi addressed senior officers assembled at the National Defense University for a “senior military cadre training course for the entire armed forces.” The purpose of the course (Xinhua): To “conduct ideological rectification [and] deepen...