In 2024, U.S. intelligence reported something that sounds like a dark comedy: up to half of China’s ballistic missiles may have been filled with water instead of fuel.
The money that should have bought rocket propellant had vanished – apparently siphoned off by corrupt officers who pocketed the funds. That year, China purged nine senior officers from its Rocket Force. And in 2025, for the first time in history, Beijing sacked a sitting vice chair of its Central Military Commission – the body that controls China’s entire military.
Something is deeply wrong inside the People’s Liberation Army, or PLA. And Xi Jinping knows it.
The stakes could not be higher. China is menacing Taiwan, which makes over 90 percent of the world’s most advanced semiconductors – the chips in your phone, your car, your laptop. Roughly a third of global trade passes through waters off China. A war, especially one that involves both China and the United States, would trigger a global economic crisis.
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