President Xi Jinping has urged senior PLA officers to maintain ideological purity. He stressed the need for resolute political loyalty to the Communist Party to prepare the military for its upcoming centenary.

With the countdown on in earnest to the PLA’s centenary next year, President Xi Jinping has urged the corruption-battered top ranks of the military to refine their ideological purity to give the armed forces a “brand new look”. Xi told senior People’s Liberation Army officers on Wednesday to maintain resolute political loyalty to the Communist Party and said that any thought or action driven by self-interest or corruption was “fundamentally against the party’s nature and purpose”, state media...