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 annual general meeting.
Zhang, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission and sitting member of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party, was removed from his offices this week on accusation of having “severely impacted the political and ideological foundation for unity and progress among all officers and soldiers.”
The general, who has served in the People’s Liberation Army for close to six decades, would have been given a seat of honor at the upcoming Two Sessions meetings in Beijing — but now he will likely be watching from state custody, and who will fill his
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