The Chinese Communist Party has launched an investigation into Zhang Youxia, 75, first vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, for 'serious violations of discipline and law.' His downfall raises profound questions about loyalty and stability within the world's second most powerful military.
  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    8 hours ago

    Xi has been purging all the top military officials to further consolidate his power and this is just the latest victim and excuse

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 hours ago

    Lessons are doomed to be forgotten. In this case the lesson of the Mao era, that concentration of power in one person always ends badly.