Xi Jinpurge

China’s top general, Zhang Youxia, second only to Xi Jinping, the nation’s leader, in the military command, has been put under investigation and accused of “grave violations of discipline and the law”, in the most stunning escalation yet in Mr. Xi’s purge of the People’s Liberation Army elite. The president has swept away military leaders on a scale unseen since Mao—raising doubts about the country's war readiness