"A Total Fog": Why Xi Jinping Beheads the Top of the Chinese Army

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The fall of the army's number two marks a major turning point in the purges ordered by the Chinese president. Behind the fight against corruption, there is a vast political takeover of the military apparatus.

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In the harsh clean-up of the Chinese Army, Zhang Youxia seemed like the last dam: by charge, biography and presidential favor. His fall this week is the biggest earthquake in the military sector in half a century and feels that no one is safe from that campaign against corruption that chased flies and tigers.Among the conjectures unleashed, some delirious, the certainty emerges that nothing and no one, neither the Army, escapes the reins of the …