After May 25th, Xi Jinping and his defense minister disappeared and suddenly reappeared. Meanwhile, Xi Jinping lost key loyalists one after another. The Politburo suddenly went silent in May. Senior officials disappearing from public view. And inside the military, new calls for transparency, collective leadership, and tighter oversight of senior commanders. We examine the latest signals emerging from Beijing, the PLA, and the Chinese political establishment. Is this simply another round of elite power struggles behind closed doors? Or are we witnessing the early stages of a much larger shift inside the Chinese Communist Party?
