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>President Xi has achieved total control of China's armed forces after removing a top general over alleged 'violations of discipline and law'. Zhang Youxia is the latest high-ranking figure subjected to Xi Jinping's long-running purge of military officials. The move is said to have fuelled fresh uncertainty over the country's invasion of Taiwan amid doubts Mr Xi could pull off the contingency with 'no senior leaders in charge'. Gen Zhang, the operational leader of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had survived several round of removals and was previously thought safe in his role as a close childhood friend of the president.

Archive: https://archive.today/kjuB3 From the post: >>President Xi has achieved total control of China's armed forces after removing a top general over alleged 'violations of discipline and law'. Zhang Youxia is the latest high-ranking figure subjected to Xi Jinping's long-running purge of military officials. The move is said to have fuelled fresh uncertainty over the country's invasion of Taiwan amid doubts Mr Xi could pull off the contingency with 'no senior leaders in charge'. Gen Zhang, the operational leader of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had survived several round of removals and was previously thought safe in his role as a close childhood friend of the president.
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Sounds like that coup mentioned in a post the other day had some validity to it, amd now Xi is paranoid and doesn't know who he can trust, so needed to make an example quick. This could backfire on him in a huge way if the average person thinks "if the highest ranking military official is not safe, what chance do I have?".