TOKYO -- Chinese President Xi Jinping has continued to up the ante in the South China Sea dispute in a bid to overhaul a military whose dominant army has vehemently resisted change.
"To put it simply, Xi Jinping's major reforms of the People's Liberation Army are a form of 'army bashing,'" said an old cadre of the Chinese Communist Party. "They are closely related to his hard-line stance on the South China Sea issue."
