Beijing
AP
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The Chinese military’s top general is being investigated for suspected critical violations of self-discipline and regulation the Defense Ministry mentioned Saturday.
Zhang Youxia, the senior of the 2 vice chairs of the highly effective Central Military Commission, is the latest determine to fall in a long-running purge of military officers.
Analysts consider the purges are designed each to reform the military and to make sure loyalty to Chinese chief Xi Jinping, who additionally chairs the military fee. They are a part of a broader anti-corruption drive that has punished greater than 200,000 officers since Xi got here to energy in 2012.
Another member of the fee, Liu Zhenli, has additionally been positioned under investigation by China’s ruling Communist Party, a Defense Ministry assertion mentioned. Liu is the chief of employees of the fee’s Joint Staff Department. The fee is the top military physique in China.
The assertion didn’t present any particulars on the alleged wrongdoing.
Zhang, who’s 75, joined the People’s Liberation Army in 1968 and is a general from its floor forces.
The Communist Party expelled the opposite vice chair of the fee, He Weidong, final October and changed him with fee member Zhang Shengmin.