🥋🔥THE ENEMY WITHIN: HOW XI’S PURGE BRIGADE IS SLOWING CHINA’S WAR MACHINE FASTER THAN AMERICA, INDIA OR JAPAN EVER COULD...
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I. The Enemy China Never Expected: China
China’s leadership has spent decades preparing for great-power rivalry:
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Japan in the East China Sea,
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India along the Himalayan frontier,
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the United States hovering everywhere from Taiwan to TikTok,
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Southeast Asian claimants in the South China Sea.
But according to the latest findings from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), China’s most dangerous adversary in 2025 is…
…its own anti-corruption drive.
Instead: China’s internal purge-industrial complex.
A system so efficient at removing officials that, if weaponised, it could probably remove Taiwan from the map without firing a shot — simply by repeatedly auditing the island until it emotionally collapses.
II. The SIPRI Bombshell: A Military Growing in Budget but Shrinking in Capability
SIPRI’s December 2025 report dropped a revelation potent enough to make global analysts choke on their jasmine tea:
China’s arms industry revenues dropped by 10% in a year when global arms sales hit an all-time high.
This is the geopolitical equivalent of:
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Everyone else at the gym increasing their lifting strength
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While China reduces its weights because the barbell is suspected of “violating Party discipline.”
While American, European, Russian, and even Korean defense firms soared, China’s trio of giants - AVIC, Norinco, and CASC - stumbled like someone unplugged the national extension cord.
Norinco: –31%
AVIC: Major delays
CASC: Procurement freezes & reviews
When Russia outperforms you economically, you need a moment of deep introspection.
III. Xi Jinping’s Purges: Cleaning the House or Removing the Load-Bearing Walls?
It has:
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removed Rocket Force generals,
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decapitated entire procurement chains,
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vanished admirals,
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erased senior engineers,
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and eliminated entire cliques within the Central Military Commission.
Xi once said the goal was to remove “tigers and flies.”
In 2025, the campaign expanded to include:
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drones masquerading as flies,
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tigers who self-identified as pandas,
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and anyone who made eye contact with the procurement ledger.
IV. When Purges Hit Procurement: What Actually Breaks
1. Delayed missile programs
Especially in the PLA Rocket Force — the very branch that scares Washington.
2. Slowed stealth aircraft production
(J-20 delivery cadence reduced, J-35 timelines stretched)
3. Suspended military contracts
4. Shrinking institutional memory
5. Slowed naval output
Despite the PLA Navy’s massive size, shipyard procurements have become entangled in political vetting resembling a Tinder swipe-test:
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Swipe left → corruption
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Swipe right → loyalty
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Swipe up → detention
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Swipe down → military parade invitation
V. The Paradox: China Is Simultaneously Strengthening & Weakening Itself
Here’s where the hybrid analysis becomes fascinating:
FACTUAL:
China’s military modernization continues:
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Three aircraft carriers
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Two sixth-gen prototypes flying
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Massive J-20 fleet
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Hypersonic weapons
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Expanding nuclear arsenal
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The almost-mythical H-20 bomber
SATIRICAL WTF LENS:
But each achievement is slowed by:
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surprise disappearances
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last-minute “rectification meetings”
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loyalty tests that resemble Hogwarts sorting rituals
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procurement committees afraid to approve paperclips without ideological clearance
It is the world’s first military to develop hypersonic fear of internal paperwork.
VI. Impact on Global Geopolitics
India
Plus: unexpected roads, airstrips, and PLA guesthouses popping up in Tibet like Himalayan mushrooms.
Japan
Relations have chilled to North Pole levels after PM Sanae Takaichi publicly declared Japan would defend Taiwan “decisively.”
China responded in Mandarin. Japan responded in legalese. Taiwan responded by updating evacuation manuals.
United States
Trade talks thawing; military tension still hotter than a Pentagon coffee pot.
VII. China’s Timeline Problem
Xi wants the PLA to be a “world-class military” by 2027, 100 years after its founding.
Will that happen?
HYBRID ANALYSIS:
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Technologically? Very likely, eventually.
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Cronologically? Less certain.
Cronology (noun): the art of realising your national timeline is delayed because half your admirals are undergoing “discipline inspection.”
SIPRI’s assessment is blunt:
China will get there - but with delays, disruptions, and rising inefficiencies.
“Trump Comments” - Because He Always Shows Up Somehow
Former US President Donald J. Trump was asked about China’s purge problem.
He replied:
“Look, Xi’s firing more generals than I ever fired cabinet members. And I fired a lot, folks. Tremendous amounts. But his purges? Very impressive. Too impressive. Frankly unfair competition. I think he should stop purging - or purge slower - to give other countries a chance.”
Asked if China’s weakening defense industry helps US strategy, Trump added:
“Well, China slowing down is great for America. It’s also great for India. Maybe even great for Mars. Hard to say. But I love when my opponents take themselves out. Wonderful efficiency.”
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FINAL THOUGHT
China’s greatest obstacle to becoming the world’s top military force is not the United States, India, Japan, AUKUS, QUAD, or NATO.
It is the PLA’s own political system - a system where stability and purity are valued above speed and efficiency.
Modern militaries require:
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transparent procurement
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stable leadership
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long-term engineering continuity
Purges provide none of these.
China’s rise will continue - but slower, bumpier, and far more unpredictable than Beijing would ever admit.
In geopolitics, as in life:
Sometimes the fiercest opponent is the one in your own mirror.
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Because when leaders purge too much, the aftermath is never simple - and occasionally hilarious.
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