How absolute is the Chinese Communist Party’s ‘absolute power’ over the PLA?
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 15, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct Gen. Zhang Youxia was purged from his lofty position on China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) because he disagreed with Communist Party chief Xi Jinping on the buildup of the nation’s armed forces by 2027, the deadline Xi set for the military to be ready to use force to […]