China’s President, Xi Jinping, has removed one of the country’s most senior military figures, deepening a sweeping purge that ...

China’s military has been shaken by President Xi Jinping’s most dramatic purge yet, with the removal of General Zhang Youxia, ...

Zhang Youxia is the latest high-ranking figure subjected to Xi Jinping's long-running purge of military officials.

Gen. Zhang Youxia no longer is China's top military general after being ousted amid an investigation into alleged legal and ...

The communist government of China announced Saturday it is investigating its highest-ranking general, alleging unspecified ...

Jan 24 (Reuters) - China's most senior general is under investigation, China's defence ministry said on Saturday, in the ...

AMONG CHINA’S generals, one had long seemed immune to the sweeping purges of the high command in the past two years. Zhang ...

The ouster of Gen. Zhang Youxia, who was second only to Xi Jinping in the military hierarchy, marks “the total annihilation ...

China's defence ministry says it has opened an investigation into the country's highest-ranking general over "grave ...

Meanwhile, their removals come after the Communist Party expelled He Weidong, the other vice chair of the commission in October 2025, and replaced him with commission member Zhang Shengmin. Eight ...

Zhang is a member of the elite Politburo of the ruling Communist Party and vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, while Liu is chief of staff of the CMC Joint Staff Department, according to ...

Analysts believe the purges are designed both to reform the military and to ensure loyalty to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who ...