Beijing and Prigozhin: what does China think of the Wagner uprising?
Chinese Whispers
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China's Lessons From Russia and the Soviet Union
China takes very extensive efforts to make sure that something like this can't happen. They rotate generals between commands, for instance, to prevent them from building up any kind of strong support. China has always been very concerned with keeping the military on-side and making sure that nobody becomes too powerful. But you have nevertheless had people like Mattel Yeh in the 1970s who became power actors in their own right.
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