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Shockwaves In Beijing: Xi Targets His Own Top General, Longtime Confidant, In Elite Purge

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by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Jan 24, 2026 – 12:15 PM

Another significant military purge appears underway in China, as Saturday morning the West woke up to news that China’s most senior military officer, who is second only to Xi Jinping, has been put under investigation over alleged “grave violations of discipline and the law.”

Gen. Zhang Youxia is a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, the Communist Party body that controls China’s armed forces, and this comes as somewhat of a major shock given he is widely regarded as President Xi’s closest ally within the military – or at least prior to this.

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