Chinese PLA commander who refused CCP order to attack student protestors dead at 85

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment Chinese Communist Party, obituary

A Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) major-general who spent the last decades of his life under house arrest after facing court-martial and a five-year prison sentence for refusing an order to crush student protestors in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, died January 8, 2021, according to reports coming out of Hong Kong. Xu Qinxian was commander of the PLA’s 38th Group Army when he was ordered to mobilize his troops to Beijing to enforce a martial law order against demonstrators,

A Chinese PLA H-6 bomber is flanked by an F-16 of the ROC Air Force

Military Affairs

February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment Chinese Communist Party, PLA, ROC military, Wuhan coronavirus

The People’s Liberation Army sent aircraft to circle Taiwan two days in a row, starting yesterday, February 9, provoking Taiwan into scrambling armed F-16 fighters to monitor the flights, and to broadcast a warning after a PLA H-6 bomber crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait today, February 10. President Tsai Ing-wen said via Facebook that choosing military actions during the virus outbreak made no sense, and was unnecessary, urging the Chinese government to concentrate efforts on quickly controlling