{"id":76085,"date":"2026-01-26T10:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/26\/china-top-ranking-general-zhang-youxia-investigation"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:40:56","slug":"chinas-top-ranking-general-under-investigation-for-alleged-violations-amid-ongoing-purge-of-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76085","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s top ranking general under investigation for alleged violations amid ongoing purge of leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhang Youxia, second-in command under president Xi Jinping as chairman of the Central Military Commission, has long been seen as Xi\u2019s closest military ally<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s most senior general is under investigation, China\u2019s defence ministry has confirmed, in the highest profile case to date in an aggressive anti-graft purge of senior military leadership in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Youxia serves as second-in-command under president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/xi-jinping\">Xi Jinping<\/a> as vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission \u2013 the supreme command body \u2013 and has long been seen as Xi\u2019s closest military ally.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/26\/china-top-ranking-general-zhang-youxia-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhang Youxia, second-in command under president Xi Jinping as chairman of the Central Military Commission, has long been seen as Xi\u2019s closest military allyChina\u2019s most senior general is under investigation, China\u2019s defence ministry has confirmed, in th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76091,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76085\/revisions\/76091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}