{"id":426662,"date":"2026-01-24T08:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/426662\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:17:09","slug":"developing-chinas-top-uniformed-officer-zhang-youxia-among-2-generals-placed-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/426662\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing | China\u2019s top uniformed officer Zhang Youxia among 2 generals placed under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Top Chinese military leaders Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli have been placed under investigation for suspected \u201cserious\u201d disciplinary violations, the Ministry of National Defence says.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhang is the first-ranked vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), China\u2019s top military command body headed by President Xi Jinping, while Liu is chief of its Joint Staff Department.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His position on the CMC makes Zhang the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the Chinese military.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhang and Li were \u201csuspected of serious violations of discipline and law\u201d, the defence ministry said in a short announcement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAfter deliberation by the CPC Central Committee, it was decided to initiate an investigation into Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli,\u201d the ministry said, referring to the Communist Party\u2019s highest decision-making body.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhang is also a member of the 24-man Politburo, the party\u2019s centre of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Chinese military leaders Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli have been placed under investigation for suspected \u201cserious\u201d disciplinary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,202919,144,202924,202923,202922,451,202925,202921,202918,3,19537,637,452,453,202920],"class_list":{"0":"post-426662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-central-military-commission","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-chinese-military","13":"tag-cpc-central-committee","14":"tag-disciplinary-violations","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-joint-staff-department","17":"tag-liu-zhenli","18":"tag-ministry-of-national-defence","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-politburo","21":"tag-president-xi-jinping","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-zhang-youxia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}