Tag: military factionalism
Why Ye Jianying Survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution While Other Marshals Were Purged in the February Countercurrent
On Feb. 11 and Feb. 16, 1967, senior Chinese Communist Party officials gathered at Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai...
Purges of Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli Expose Xi Jinping’s Grip on the PLA
By Jian Yi “The People’s Liberation Army is facing a major crisis. The level of turmoil within its...
Zhang Youxia as the Second Lin Biao: How the Chinese Communist Party Is Racing Toward Collapse
Mao Zedong’s handling of Lin Biao stands as a textbook example of internal political struggle within...