China’s Xi targets top general in growing purge

What happened

China’s Ministry of Defense announced Saturday that the country’s top general, Zhang Youxia, and another member of the Central Military Commission, Gen. Liu Zhenli, were being investigated over “grave violations of discipline and the law.” The Defense Ministry did not disclose the allegations against either general, but Zhang was accused of “leaking information about the country’s nuclear-weapons program to the U.S. and accepting bribes for official acts,” according to The Wall Street Journal.