{"id":541832,"date":"2026-01-25T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/541832\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:08:12","slug":"chinas-top-general-under-investigation-in-latest-military-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/541832\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s top general under investigation in latest military purge"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEIJING (AP) \u2014 The Chinese military\u2019s top general is being investigated for suspected serious violations of discipline and law the Defense Ministry said Saturday,<\/p>\n

Zhang Youxia, the senior of the two vice chairs of the powerful Central Military Commission, is the latest figure to fall in a long-running purge<\/a> of military officials.<\/p>\n

Analysts believe the purges are designed both to reform the military and to ensure loyalty to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who also chairs the military commission. They are part of a broader anti-corruption drive<\/a> that has punished more than 200,000 officials since Xi came to power in 2012.<\/p>\n

Another member of the commission, Liu Zhenli, has also been placed under investigation by China\u2019s ruling Communist Party, a Defense Ministry statement said. Liu is the chief of staff of the commission\u2019s Joint Staff Department. The commission is the top military body in China.<\/p>\n

The statement did not provide any details on the alleged wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Zhang, who is 75, joined the People\u2019s Liberation Army in 1968 and is a general from its ground forces. <\/p>\n

The Communist Party expelled the other vice chair<\/a> of the commission, He Weidong, last October and replaced him with commission member Zhang Shengmin.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the party expelled two former defense ministers<\/a> over corruption charges.<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration released a new National Defense Strategy<\/a> on Friday acknowledging China as a military power that it said needs to be deterred from dominating the U.S. or its allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis does not require regime change or some other existential struggle,\u201d the strategy said. \u201cRather, a decent peace, on terms favorable to Americans but that China can also accept and live under, is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING (AP) \u2014 The Chinese military\u2019s top general is being investigated for suspected serious violations of discipline and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":541833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13214,74,13212,17628,69,57,6604,8132,50,80,235115,103,107,11762],"class_list":{"0":"post-541832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-china-government","11":"tag-corruption","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-international-news","15":"tag-military-and-defense","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-send-to-apple-news","19":"tag-world","20":"tag-world-news","21":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115955899420411159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}