Media report said to show Hu Jintao is on the defensive in ongoing PLA power struggle

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A popular Chinese language web site reports that the authority of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao is being challenged following the recent power struggle surrounding the ouster of Politburo member Bo Xilai, who was accused of harboring ambitions to control the PLA and preparing for a rumored coup.

Chinese President Hu Jintao, center, attended a PLA conference in his capacity as chairman of the Central Military Commission on March 12. Also attending was Vice President Xi Jinping (to Hu's left). Xinhua

China’s political system provides an absolute guarantee of supreme authority to Hu, who is also chairman of the supreme military high command, the Central Military Commission.

It was therefore alarmingly abnormal for the PLA Daily, the mouthpiece of the People’s Liberation Army to headline a special report on April 6 stressing that Hu should be in charge of the PLA.

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