"Zhang Youxia, the senior of the two vice chairs of the powerful Central Military Commission, is the latest figure to fall in a long-running purge of military officials. Analysts believe the purges are designed both to reform the military and to ensure loyalty to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who also chairs the military commission. They are part of a broader anti-corruption drive that has punished more than 200,000 officials since Xi came to power in 2012."
"The Trump administration released a new National Defense Strategy on Friday acknowledging China as a military power that it said needs to be deterred from dominating the U.S. or its allies. "This does not require regime change or some other existential struggle," the strategy said. "Rather, a decent peace, on terms favorable to Americans but that China can also accept and live under, is possible.""
Zhang Youxia, 75, a general and senior vice chair of the Central Military Commission, is under investigation for suspected serious violations of discipline and law, with no details provided. Another commission member, Liu Zhenli, the Joint Staff Department chief of staff, has also been placed under investigation. The Communist Party expelled a former vice chair and two former defense ministers over corruption. Analysts view the purges as efforts to reform the military and secure loyalty to Xi Jinping. The purges form part of an anti-corruption drive that has punished more than 200,000 officials since 2012. The U.S. released a defense strategy calling China a military power that must be deterred while rejecting regime change and saying a tolerable peace is possible.
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