On WarTalk, Bryan Clark discusses what the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) recent purges reveal about China’s military readiness, the gap between military capabilities on paper and in practice, and the challenges of assessing the PLA from the outside.
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A monument to the historic battle of Guningtou, which took place in 1949, on February 3, 2021, in Kinmen, Taiwan. (Getty Images)