{"id":729,"date":"2026-03-19T20:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0e5d0158fc277af36d5331cee89750b5"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","slug":"why-xis-purge-of-top-generals-may-be-good-news-for-taiwan-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Why Xi\u2019s purge of top generals may be good news for Taiwan (for now)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/why-xis-purge-of-top-generals-may-be-good-news-for-taiwan-for-now.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Tokyo <\/em>| The sudden purge of China\u2019s most senior generals has sparked huge upheaval in the People\u2019s Liberation Army, scrambled Beijing\u2019s military planning and likely reduced the near-term risk of a major operation against Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/asia\/china-ousts-top-military-officials-as-xi-widens-graft-purge-20251018-p5n3f4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at the weekend<\/a> that China\u2019s most powerful uniformed officer, Zhang Youxia, was being removed for \u201cserious disciplinary violations\u201d, while a second member of the all-powerful Central Military Commission, General Liu Zhenli, was being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo | The sudden purge of China\u2019s most senior generals has sparked huge upheaval in the People\u2019s Liberation Army, scrambled Beijing\u2019s military planning and likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-more"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}