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China Shakes Up Military to Better Compete With the West

Xi Jinping and Joe Biden

Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

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As the US-China rivalry heats up, President Xi Jinping is putting information front and center of his biggest military shakeup in nearly a decade.