OPINION_ Zhang Youxia’s Disappearance: China’s Military Purge Signals CCP’s Final Endgame (Zhong Yuan - THE EPOCH TIMES)

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Zhang Youxia’s Disappearance: China’s Military Purge Signals CCP’s Final Endgame


(Left) Liu Zhenli at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2025; (Right) Chinese Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Zhang Youxia attends an official event in Beijing on Oct. 15, 2024. Reuters/Russian Defense Ministry

Zhong Yuan
1/25/2026|Updated: 1/27/2026

Commentary

On Jan. 20, Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli—two of China’s highest-ranking military leaders—were found absent from the opening of a study session for provincial- and ministerial-level officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Zhang is a vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and a member of the CCP’s top decision-making body Politburo. Liu is a member of the CMC and is the chief of staff of the CMC’s Joint Staff Department.

Four days after their absence, the CCP’s Ministry of National Defense announced that both were under investigation for “serious violations of discipline and law.” Such a quick move broke with the CCP’s usual practice of keeping the fate of disappeared senior officials in secrecy for long periods of time. Coming at the start of the new year, it also unexpectedly shattered the political stalemate that Zhongnanhai had been struggling to maintain.

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