Inside China’s ideological training camp where PLA top brass study Xi’s speeches

Hundreds of China’s top military officials have spent weeks at an unprecedented ideology training camp – studying President Xi Jinping’s speeches, reading corrupt cadres’ confessions and marching in formation – as the anti-corruption drive in the military deepens.The details of the training camp, which concluded last week, were published in the People’s Liberation Army Daily, the military’s official newspaper, on Wednesday.Xi personally decided to launch the exercise, which began on April 8, the PLA Daily reported. During its opening ceremony, he delivered a speech stressing that “leading officers, especially senior cadres, must take the lead in … building an atmosphere where people speak the truth, offer advice candidly and fight against wrongdoings”.