Xi Jinping spent 13 years building a military to rival that of the United States. But the stronger the Chinese forces grew, ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has served in the top role since March 2013, rising to political power through roles in the Central Military Commission and Defense Ministry in the late 1970s before being ...

Chinese Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping recently sacked General Zhang Youxia, first vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and General Liu Zhenli, CMC chief of staff. The CMC is ...

Patrick Henry College Department of Government Chairman Gregory Moore is hopeful US President Donald Trump will remain firm ...

Following Chinese President Xi Jinping, Zhang Youxia, the second-highest-ranking official in the Chinese military and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, has abruptly fallen from power.

Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping’s unceremonious ousting of Gen. Zhang Youxia from the upper echelons of the Communist Party has unsettled power dynamics in Beijing not long before the regime’s ...

Conflict within the CMC has reached such a state that Xi Jinping could no longer tolerate even his long-time loyalists. Months after his disappearance from public view, news has finally surfaced ...

The aftermath of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s purges created a special phenomenon at the recently concluded Fourth Plenum. Attendance at such a critical Chinese Communist Party (CCP) gathering is ...