In Xi Jinping’s Purge of the Military, a Search for Absolute Loyalty
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By reaching back to Maoist tactics of “rectification,” the Chinese leader
is signaling that control over the gun requires a state of perpetual
cleansing.
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As harrowing testimony emerged from the summer camp where scores of youngsters were mown down, Norway was struggling to understand how a country famed as a beacon of peace could experience such bloodshed on its soil.
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