China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee expelled three senior PLA officers—Wang Renhua (CMC Political and Legal Affairs head), Zhang Hongbing (People’s Armed Police commissar), and Wang Peng (CMC training director)—on December 27, 2025, amid Xi Jinping’s intensifying anti-corruption purge. Absent from key events since July’s PLA anniversary and October’s party plenum, the trio retains Central Committee membership, signaling selective political maneuvering over full ouster. From India’s strategic lens, this upheaval—following October expulsions of nine generals including ex-CMC vice chairman He Weidong—exposes PLA command fractures, potentially degrading operational readiness along the LAC and offering Delhi tactical windows amid Beijing’s internal instability.​