U.S. intelligence analysts say that Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has a remarkable level of fear. He has carried out mass purges, and surprised many by removing his top general.
The anti-corruption campaign has left open positions and a lack of senior officials with the experience to fill them.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s decision to place the country’s top-ranking general under investigation is a stunning move that ...
The United States is currently mired in a cycle of aggressive trade renegotiations and a transactional foreign policy that has alienated its most critical allies. By perceiving partners as free riders ...
Xi Jinping has launched his most dramatic military purge yet, taking down one of China’s most powerful generals and igniting whispers of a coup in Beijing. Officially, it’s about corruption.
China’s maritime militia can swarm 2,000 “fishing” boats to rehearse a Taiwan blockade—weaponizing lawfare to threaten sea ...
The PLA is in a major crisis, with a level of leadership instability unseen since the heyday of the Cultural Revolution.
China's Defense Ministry says the military's top general is under investigation for serious violations of discipline and law, ...
The U.S. Defense Department says China’s growing hard power is increasingly a threat to the United States, according to a new report released on Tuesday. Chinese President Xi Jinping has set the goal ...
Xi Jinping’s latest purge of the Chinese military is reportedly being driven by a corruption scandal. According to US intelligence, some missiles in western China have been filled with water rather th ...
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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 acquired naval platforms from Russia to rapidly boost its capabilities throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.