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- Xi Jinping is in a struggle with China's military, purging senior commanders to reshape it.
- He wants generals ready and willing to go to war, analysts told Business Insider.
- A Chinese invasion somewhere like Taiwan could drag the US into a Third World War, one analyst said.
Xi Jinping is fighting with China's own military, seeking to purge commanders he sees as unwilling or unable to go to war, military analysts told Business Insider.
The Chinese leader is "trying to gain control of the military, and I think that he is thinking that he needs officers who are prepared to actually fight," said Gordon Chang, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute and author of "China Is Going to War."