Under a cloak of secrecy, Xi Jinping is carrying out China’s largest military purge since Mao Zedong. Exclusive Bloomberg News analysis reveals that over the past two years, Xi has removed nearly a fifth of the generals he personally appointed, something his predecessors never did. The shakeup has left the Central Military Commission, China’s apex military body, with its largest proportion of vacancies since Mao, whose Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s upended China’s institutions. Why is Xi target ...