A Senior Pentagon Veteran's Assessment: Why China's Military Purge Reveals a Dangerous and Fragile Giant

Former Defense Department China Director exposes a volatile nuclear-armed superpower that may struggle to sustain high-intensity warfare—and why Western alliance-building is the best deterrent.

OTTAWA – The arrest that shook Beijing’s military establishment came without warning. General Zhang Youxia, 75, vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission and Xi Jinping’s childhood friend …