BEIJING: China will carry out sweeping reforms to the structure of its military, state media reported, in moves intended to enhance the ruling Communist Party’s control over the People’s Liberation Army.

China’s armed forces have long been plagued by inefficiency and corruption, even as Beijing adopts more assertive stances in territorial disputes with neighbors including Japan and the Philippines over islands in the East and South China Seas.

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