Tai Ming Cheung Comments on China's Central Military Commission
Changing of the guard at China's CMC
12/12/2011
Robert Karniol,
The Straits Times
CHINA'S Central Military Commission (CMC), the country's top decision-making authority for military affairs, is due next autumn to undergo a major revamp with an influx of new faces.
Eight or nine of the body's 12 members are expected to retire because of advanced age. Their replacements will be appointed during the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) 18th party congress, probably in October or November.
China scholar Cheng Li of the Brookings Institution has noted that this is 'the largest turnover in Chinese military leadership for over two decades'.
The CMC chairmanship, held by paramount leader Hu Jintao, is of primary interest.
Mr Hu took over from Mr Jiang Zemin as China's president in March 2003 but it was a further two years before he fully succeeded him at the CMC.
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Tai Ming Cheung is an associate research scientist at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) located at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla. He directs the Minerva program on Chinese security and technology, a multi-year academic research and training project funded by the U.S. Defense Department to explore China’s technological potential.
