New Leader Takes Over as Chief of Staff of China’s Military Command

What’s new: Liu Zhenli has taken over as the new chief of a Chinese military command body similar to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, state media reported.

Liu attended a meeting Monday as head of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, according to a story published the next day in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese military.