In this episode of The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast, Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) and Katie Putz (@LadyPutz) discuss the recent downfall of General Zhang Youxia, a significant figure in China’s ...

Gen. Zhang Youxia is one of China’s few top military officers with combat experience. He joined the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2007, and in 2012, he was appointed to ...

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A week ago, speculation that two of China’s most senior military leaders were in trouble began circulating after they were conspicuously absent from a high-level study session in Beijing – an omission ...

When a film about an investigation into a phone scam in Cambodia debuted at the Busan International Film Festival in 2018, it was not the cast or the plot that drew attention in China. Instead, the ...

Zhang Youxia, long seen as Xi Jinping’s closest military ally, reportedly accused of leaking nuclear secrets to US China’s military leadership is in turmoil after its most senior general – a close ...

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 ...

Zhang Youxia, vice-chair of China’s Central Military Commission, packing up to leave a meeting at the annual “Two Sessions” in Beijing on Mar 4, 2025 as President Xi Jinping walks past behind him.

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 ...

Top Chinese military leaders Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli are under investigation for suspected “serious” disciplinary violations, according to the Ministry of National Defence. Zhang is the ...

Chen founded multinational conglomerate Prince Group that US says is front for multibillion-dollar fraud operation Chinese television has shown footage of the US-indicted tycoon Chen Zhi being ...