If the military seriously wants to depose Xi, they wouldn’t even need a second to do so. He eats in so many local restaurants, he has visited so many poor families, he walks among the people without bodyguards, and he attends yearly military parades; the opportunities to assassinate him, whether via bullet, bomb, staged accident, or poison, would be endless. They will not do so because they stand nothing to gain, and because they know that even if they did it anyway, they’d never get away with it.