The PLA has a pay-to-be-promoted human resources model. Zhang and Liu would likely have had extensive patron-client networks. Corruption in procurement, which Zhang oversaw, was rampant. It was ...
These tactics allow the CCP to impose cumulative costs on Taiwan while controlling the domestic narrative and avoiding the “all-or-nothing” gamble of a full-scale invasion. The danger is that fixation ...
US intelligence assessments suggest the purge was triggered not just by political disloyalty but by alarming operational ...
China's anti-corruption probe into top general Zhang Youxia and other senior officials will "remove roadblocks" and ...
Xi Jinping’s military purge raises deep and urgent questions about the man atop the leadership of the world’s second-biggest economy.
Khaberni - With the press of a button, it was supposed to open the covers of missile silos in western China to launch nuclear ...
Those who detect weakness can cite the suddenness of the announcement on January 24 that Zhang and General Liu Zhenli, chief of the People’s Liberation Army’s joint staff, were under investigation.
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Days after removing the highest-ranking PLA official, the Chinese military mouthpiece acknowledged “numerous factors affecting” the ruling Communist Party’s absolute leadership over armed forces, ...
Tang’s sentencing comes at a time Xi Jinping is engaged in pursuing his broader anti-corruption campaign punishing more than ...
Xi Jinping’s latest purge of the Chinese military is reportedly being driven by a corruption scandal. According to US intelligence, some missiles in western China have been filled with water rather th ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping may have instituted a massive purge of military leadership after nuclear missiles were found ...