Military commentator Chris Clifford, better known in Taiwan as YouTuber Uncle Topher, argues that PLA leadership purges may be one explanation for why Beijing’s military spectacle around Taiwan has faded.
The same dataset showed that several other parts of Taiwan were also shrinking. Kaohsiung was listed at 2,713,913, down 0.32 percent, while Tainan was listed at 1,849,281, down 0.25 percent.
