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China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has said that great danger and opportunity often arrive together. That is acutely true for him now that he has eviscerated the Chinese military’s high command, leaving a ...

Miles Yu is director of the China Center at Hudson Institute. The dramatic purge of China’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, Gen. Zhang Youxia, last weekend is the latest evidence that communist ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered the total annihilation of his high command. On January 24, the Ministry of Defense announced that China’s top uniformed officer, General Zhang Youxia, and the ...

“IN AN UNCERTAIN world, China is the biggest certainty.” So proclaimed a Chinese spokesman in December. Amid a war in Europe, turmoil in the Middle East and America’s rewriting of the geopolitical ...

Tokyo | The sudden purge of China’s most senior generals has sparked huge upheaval in the People’s Liberation Army, scrambled Beijing’s military planning and likely reduced the near-term risk of a ...

Why it mattersIn China, the gun decides everything.The Communist Party came to power through civil war, and it has never forgotten Mao Zedong’s dictum that “political power grows out of the barrel of ...

In 1757, a firing squad executed Adm. John Byng on the deck of a Royal Navy warship for “failing to do his utmost” in pursuing the enemy during a battle in the Seven Years’ War. As Voltaire put it, ...

BEIJING — The downfall of China’s top general, second in command and once a close ally of President Xi Jinping, has thrown the leadership of the country’s military into turmoil and raised questions ...

Xi's purge of top general paints a fascinating picture of power and control within a ruthless and unforgiving system General Zhang Youxia's removal marks the most senior scalp taken in a spate of high ...

The PLA is in a major crisis, with a level of leadership instability unseen since the heyday of the Cultural Revolution. PLA General Zhang Youxia, pictured here during a 2017 meeting with Russia’s ...

China has opened an investigation into Zhang Youxia, the country’s most senior serving general after President Xi Jinping, in what analysts describe as one of the most consequential military purges in ...