{"id":388246,"date":"2026-01-24T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388246\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:08:08","slug":"china-places-highest-ranking-general-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388246\/","title":{"rendered":"China places highest-ranking general under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zhang, 75, is a vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) &#8211; the Communist Party group headed by President Xi which controls the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zhang also sits on the party&#8217;s top decision-making body, the 24-person Politburo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His father was one of the founding generals of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zhang joined the army in 1968 and is one of only a few senior leaders with combat experience. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was kept in office beyond the customary retirement age for China&#8217;s military, suggesting President Xi&#8217;s confidence in him until now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The announcement comes days after rumours appeared that Zhang and Liu could be facing an investigation as they were not present at a high-level party event in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zhang, 75, is a vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) &#8211; the Communist Party group headed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-388246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}