Chinese President Xi Jinping has delivered a message to "two-faced people:" Those who officially pretend to obey him but secretly resist will be removed. © AP China up close China officials run for cover as Xi Jinping prepares another brutal purge KATSUJI NAKAZAWA, Nikkei senior staff writerSeptember 3, 2020 06:00 JST TOKYO -- The decision to fire four ballistic missiles into the South China Sea on Aug. 26 was surely signed off on by the Central Military Commission, the Chinese military's top decision-making body. That committee is chaired by Xi Jinping, the country's president and Chinese Communist Party's general secretary. The missiles fired by the People's Liberation Army included those feared by the international community as "aircraft carrier killers," capable of sinking the U.S.'s greatest warships, and the "Guam killer," capable of reaching American military bases in the North Pacific. The firings have escalated tensions. They have also ushered the China-U.S. confrontation into more dangerous territory, with the real possibility of accidental clashes. One Asian intellectual familiar with Chinese politics noted that the missile launches came on the same day as another major political event. "I feel uneasy," the intellectual said. "It may give us a clue of what lies ahead in Chinese politics." China's "Guam killer," top, is capable of reaching American military bases in the North Pacific, and its "aircraft carrier killers" can sink the U.S.'s greatest warships. (Source photos by Ken Kobayashi and Takaki Kashiwabara) Also on Aug. 26, Xi convened a meeting of 300 or so senior police and state security officials from across the country at Beijing's Great Hall of the People. In a pompous ceremony, Xi handed to the police force a newly designed red and blue flag. The red portion, occupying the top half of the flag, symbolizes the party and is meant to portray the police's absolute loyalty to the party, it was explained. It was a highly symbolic move. Every time President Xi Jinping confers a flag to a branch of law enforcement, he is telling those who serve in the branch where their loyalty lies. © AP Two days later, it became clear that Xi's move to take full control of police power has an even deeper meaning. Wang Xiaohong, a close aide to Xi and the most senior vice minister for public security, published a signed article about political discipline in the police force's official newspaper. Wang specifically warned that "two-faced people," those who officially pretend to obey but secretly resist, and those who are straddling the fence without showing the flag will be thoroughly removed. More........... https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Pi...r-as-Xi-Jinping-prepares-another-brutal-purge
We have SLBMs parked off their coast and we're worried about Guam? Really? 4 minutes from launch to impact with a CEP of 50 meters.