The military purge happening during Two Sessions is the tell — Xi is institutionalizing fear at the top of the PLA right before the 2027 Taiwan capability deadline, suggesting the corruption problem is so systemic that he'd rather field a loyal-but-degraded force than a capable-but-corrupt one.
China's dual play — interest-bearing e-CNY for domestic adoption + Huawei AI clusters for tech sovereignty — is the same decoupling playbook applied to money and compute simultaneously, directly threatening USD settlement rails and US AI infrastructure dominance in the Global South.