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China’s stunning military purge

Analysts are calling it China’s biggest military purge in roughly half a century: President Xi Jinping has placed his second-in-command, China’s top general, under investigation. Shanshan Mei, who ...
China's top general Zhang Youxia is under investigation for “suspected serious violations of discipline and law,” according ...
The allegations against Gen. Zhang Youxia were revealed during a briefing attended by some of China’s highest-ranking ...
Today’s global system is effectively built around two superpowers — the United States and China. Almost every major political, economic, ...
A purge of military elite shows the risk of a sudden surge in military spending—and of crossing Xi Jinping.
The purging of China’s top general Zhang Youxia has cranked up the rumour mill, but experts say his downfall may be the case ...
This is a reminder coming directly from President Xi Jinping that political loyalty stands well before combat readiness,” one ...
That prediction would see China building aircraft-carriers at more than twice the clip of America, which plans to build only ...
Xi Jinping’s purge of top Chinese generals has cost Western governments a key contact and deepened fears that the People’s ...
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While the Trump administration frames deep-sea mining as a ‘core national security and economic interest,’ dozens of ...