Did President Xi’s Tibet visit in 2025 portend top general’s fall from grace, disarray in China’s top army echelon?

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(TibetanReview.net, Feb06’26) – Gen Zhang Youxia, senior vice-chairman of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) and the most senior uniformed general, was all too conspicuous an absence to be ignored from the entourage of President Xi Jinping when he landed at Lhasa Gongkar Airport on Aug 20, 2025, to celebrate 60 years of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). It may also have, in retrospect, portent an imminent disarray in the top echelon of China’s armed forces, putting paid to any plan to invade Taiwan by 2027, according to expert analyses.

While some observers suggested at the time that Zhang stayed back as an act of being not supportive of – in fact, being a threat to – Xi, ...

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