China announced investigations on January 24–25, 2026, into two of the highest-ranking military leaders in the country: General Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission and the highest-ranking uniformed officer below Xi Jinping, and General Liu Zhenli, chief of the CMC’s Joint Staff Department. In China, once a cadre is placed under investigation, guilt is almost inevitable, with punishments ranging from lengthy imprisonment to life sentences or execution in severe cases.
The move reduced the Central Military Commission, the Chinese Communist Party’s supreme military leadership body, from its usual seven members to just Xi and General Zhang Shengmin. This represents the highest proportion of vacancies on the CMC since the Mao period.
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