What’s new: China unveiled new leadership for the missile force in charge of the country’s nuclear arsenal in a recent military shakeup.
Wang Houbin, the Navy’s former deputy commander, was named the head of the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force, replacing Li Yuchao. Meanwhile, Xu Xisheng, the political commissar of Southern Theater Command, became the new political commissar of the rocket force, replacing Xu Zhongbo.
