This is an excerpt from an article in Foreign Affairs by Christopher Johnson, Non-Resident Senior Fellow on Chinese Politics at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis Chinese ...

Miles Yu is director of the China Center at Hudson Institute. The dramatic purge of China’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, Gen. Zhang Youxia, last weekend is the latest evidence that communist ...

“IN AN UNCERTAIN world, China is the biggest certainty.” So proclaimed a Chinese spokesman in December. Amid a war in Europe, turmoil in the Middle East and America’s rewriting of the geopolitical ...

Xi Jinping’s purge of top Chinese generals has cost Western governments a key contact and deepened fears that the People’s Liberation Army is becoming even more walled-off. While the removal of ...

In 1757, a firing squad executed Adm. John Byng on the deck of a Royal Navy warship for “failing to do his utmost” in pursuing the enemy during a battle in the Seven Years’ War. As Voltaire put it, ...

BEIJING (AP) — China made a major announcement over the weekend, saying it was investigating the army's top general for suspected serious violations of discipline and law. Gen. Zhang Youxia was the ...

BEIJING — The downfall of China’s top general, second in command and once a close ally of President Xi Jinping, has thrown the leadership of the country’s military into turmoil and raised questions ...

President Xi Jinping’s move to probe his top general and one-time ally Zhang Youxia is the most stunning development yet in China’s biggest military purge in roughly half a century. It also has ...

The ousting of China’s most senior general has set off fevered speculation. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. Chinese politics is often a black box. Foreign leaders struggle to gauge what ...

The PLA is in a major crisis, with a level of leadership instability unseen since the heyday of the Cultural Revolution. PLA General Zhang Youxia, pictured here during a 2017 meeting with Russia’s ...

China’s highest-ranking military official below Xi Jinping has been placed under investigation for corruption, a stunning upheaval that brings down the most senior figure yet in a widening purge of ...

Among China’s generals, one had long seemed immune to sweeping purges of the high command in the past two years. Zhang Youxia, its most senior uniformed officer, was not just a personal friend of Xi ...