Analysis: How a secret feud ignited Xi Jinping's governance drive

Nikkei Asia · Staff Writer · 2026-11-04 19:00 UTC

A warning was issued to Jiang Zemin in 2014, now disarray builds in the PLA

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief and was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.

As Xi Jinping paves his way to a fourth five-year term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, military governance remains an obstacle. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and Getty Images)

A warning was issued to Jiang Zemin in 2014, now disarray builds in the PLA

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