The New York Times

Xi’s Purge of China’s Military Brings Its Top General Down

The ouster of Gen. Zhang Youxia, who was second only to Xi Jinping in the military hierarchy, marks “the total annihilation of the high command,” one analyst said. By Chris Buckley China’s top general ...
CNN

Xi has absolute control over China’s military. Now he wants more

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s decision to place the country’s top-ranking general under investigation is a stunning move that leaves Xi virtually alone at the top of the military hierarchy – raising ...
The New York Times

Xi’s Purge of the Chinese Military

The ousting of China’s most senior general has set off fevered speculation. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. Chinese politics is often a black box. Foreign leaders struggle to gauge what ...
The Economist

What Xi Jinping’s purge of China’s most senior general reveals

Among China’s generals, one had long seemed immune to sweeping purges of the high command in the past two years. Zhang Youxia, its most senior uniformed officer, was not just a personal friend of Xi ...
The Economist

Xi Jinping is immensely powerful. Why can’t he stamp out corruption?

After securing an unprecedented third term as Communist Party chief in October 2022, Xi Jinping led senior officials on a pilgrimage to the party’s “red holy city”. His choice of destination was ...
Wall Street Journal

Xi Jinping Is Stripping Down His Military Command and Starting Over

The ouster of China’s top general deals a fresh blow to leader Xi Jinping’s quest to forge a more modern fighting force capable of challenging American pre-eminence. Beijing’s announcement on Saturday ...
Foreign Policy

As Generals Fall, Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Campaign Is Eating Itself

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Reuters

'Nobody is safe': China's Xi targets his close ally in purge

BEIJING/WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - China’s investigation into its top general is taking President Xi Jinping’s years-long corruption purge into his innermost circle, underlining that even close ...
Washington Examiner

Xi Jinping’s purge of generals sets grim tone for annual Communist Party meetings

Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping’s unceremonious ousting of Gen. Zhang Youxia from the upper echelons of the Communist Party has unsettled power dynamics in Beijing not long before the regime’s ...
Yahoo

Military purge gives Xi total control of Chinese army

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Xi Jinping has doubled Chinas defence budget since taking office - Tingshu Wang/AFP China’s highest-ranked general has been placed ...
Yahoo

Starmer and Xi call for deeper UK-China ties as Trump shakes up global relations

BEIJING (AP) — The leaders of Britain and China called Thursday for a "strategic partnership” to deepen ties between their nations at a time of growing global turbulence as they sought to thaw ...
The Conversation

Xi Jinping has dismissed two of China’s most senior generals. What does this mean?

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