{"id":54476,"date":"2026-01-25T13:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=54476"},"modified":"2026-01-25T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:48:07","slug":"china-places-highest-ranking-general-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=54476","title":{"rendered":"China places highest-ranking general under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China&#8217;s defence ministry says it has opened an investigation into the country&#8217;s highest-ranking general over &#8220;grave violations of discipline and the law&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ministry gave no further details about accusations against General Zhang Youxia, who has widely been seen as President Xi Jinping&#8217;s closest military ally. However in China the accusation of wrongdoing is usually a euphemism for corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its announcement, the ministry said another senior military officer, General Liu Zhenli, was also under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their removal follows&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwy7528ekzro\">the expulsion of nine top generals in October<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; one of the largest public crackdowns on the military in decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zhang, 75, is a vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) &#8211; the Communist Party group headed by President Xi which controls the armed forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zhang also sits on the party&#8217;s top decision-making body, the 24-person Politburo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His father was one of the founding generals of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zhang joined the army in 1968 and is one of only a few senior leaders with combat experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was kept in office beyond the customary retirement age for China&#8217;s military, suggesting President Xi&#8217;s confidence in him until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement comes days after rumours appeared that Zhang and Liu could be facing an investigation as they were not present at a high-level party event in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: China&#8217;s defence ministry says it has opened an investigation into the country&#8217;s highest-ranking general over &#8220;grave violations of discipline and the law&#8221;. The ministry gave no further details about accusations against General Zhang Youxia, who has widely been seen as President Xi Jinping&#8217;s closest military ally. However in China the accusation of wrongdoing is usually a euphemism for corruption. In its announcement, the ministry said another senior military officer, General Liu Zhenli, was also under investigation. Their removal follows&nbsp;the expulsion of nine top generals in October&nbsp;&#8211; one of the largest public crackdowns on the military in decades. Zhang, 75,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54478,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54476\/revisions\/54478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}