Eyck Freymann

How do you know?

Well, look at the org chart.

There's more empty chairs than full chairs.

So he's now running the show.

What he doesn't have yet is a new cast of handpicked characters who will carry out his wishes.

Now, we don't know why he did it, but we do know that it's a little strange to start a war or start a crisis that runs a high risk of escalation to war.

If you don't have military officers at the top that you trust.

Right.

I think going into the next party Congress, he has some big decisions to make, not just about the PLA, but about succession.

So far, he has raised a couple of or allowed rumors to brew about a couple of bright young things.

Yeah.

And then he has smacked him down with a hammer.

So the lesson has become the last thing you want to be in the CCP is like rumored to be the next in line.

Something like that.

I wonder where we got that from.

So.

But seriously, he's not getting any younger.

There's all these rumors about his health.

Who knows what's true?

But he's either going to go in with a successor in mind or he's going to go in without a successor in mind.