Tag: Mao Zedong purges
Xi Jinping’s Military Crisis: Reports of Zhang Youxia’s Detention Spark ‘Night of the Long Knives’ Fears
In January 2026, unverified reports that Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli had been taken into custody began...
Why Mao’s Most Dependable Enforcer Was the First to Fall: The Rise and Ruin of Peng Zhen
For more than two decades before the Cultural Revolution, Peng Zhen occupied a rare tier inside the CCP...