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PLA has been running thing since 1949. Their positions have been critical to major events, like the Culture Revolution and Tiananmen Square incident. The real question is whether the newer generation of military leaders is professional enough to behave differently, as OOE stated.
I can only make my point from a cultural point of view. As much as I hate it, guilty by association is a standard mindset in Chinese culture. This mindset reinforces personal loyalty, which in turn validates the mindset. You can actually see the current nationalism another expression of the same mindset: “We are all Han Chinese and we are all attacked.” I am still waiting for indications that military leaders will behave differently.
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