For three years, Xi Jinping has been cleaning out the Chinese military elite, bringing high-level dismissals and ...

China is currently running a purge of its top military leaders amid an aggressive anti-corruption campaign by President Xi Jinping. Several Leaders of the People's Liberation Army are being ...

His sweeping military shake-up may look like weakness but it’s clearing the way for a more dangerous force under his full ...

Tang’s sentencing comes at a time Xi Jinping is engaged in pursuing his broader anti-corruption campaign punishing more than ...

Xi Jinping’s military purge raises deep and urgent questions about the man atop the leadership of the world’s second-biggest economy.

Even after a decade of high drama in the People’s Liberation Army, the decision by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to remove Zhang from the PLA’s top governing body, the Central Military Commission (CMC), ...

US intelligence assessments suggest the purge was triggered not just by political disloyalty but by alarming operational ...

The defence ministry said last month it was investigating Zhang, the vice chairman of the powerful Central Military ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The fall of Zhang Youxi, China's top uniformed military officer, in President Xi Jinping's purge might have to do with ...