V OLUME 24 • I SSUE 3

Whatever the truth, the recent shake-ups in the upper echelons of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have attracted international attention and speculation about the current state of the Party’s army. [...] In the 1990s, Ding served as a regiment commander in the 24th Air Division while Xu Qiliang commanded the 8th Corps of the PLA Air Force, the predecessor of the Fuzhou Command Post. [...] [4] The bloody suppression of the Tibetan uprising and the flight of the 14th Dalai Lama and his followers left a deep impression on the Bhutanese. [...] 24 ChinaBrief • Volume 24 • Issue 3 • February 2, 2024 This is the second part of a two-part article examining the influence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at the United Nations through the lens of the Universal Periodic Review of its human rights. [...] Part of the increased prominence of these issues at the UN can also be attributed to an increase in international awareness and the success of civil society and advocacy groups in focusing attention on the severity of the situations.