Another Hitler in the making : World Uthistatha Jagratha
31/10/2017 China’s Xi begins second term, orders army to be ‘combat-ready’ to win wars : - Chinese President Xi Jinping has begun his second five-year term ordering the country’s 2.3 million-strong military, the world’s largest, to be absolutely loyal to the ruling Communist Party and “intensify its combat readiness” by focusing on how to win wars. The once-in-a-five-year Congress of the Communist Party endorsed Xi’s leadership of the party, the military and the presidency this week and approved his ideology to be written into its Constitution, elevating him on par with modern China’s founder Chairman Mao Zedong and his successor Deng Xiaoping. Xi, 64, began his second tenure on Thursday by holding a meeting of top military officials, regarded as a main source of power base. Xi, who heads the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC) the overall high command of Chinese military, is the only civilian leader in the body which is otherwise packed with top-most officials of...