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

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

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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING: China's anti-corruption probe into top general Zhang Youxia and other senior officials will "remove roadblocks" and ...

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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