At the summit of China's military hierarchy, no rank has proven immune to accountability. Zhang Youxia, once the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the People's Liberation Army, has been expelled from the Communist Party on charges of accepting exceptionally large bribes — a fall that reflects both the scale of alleged misconduct and the enduring reach of Xi Jinping's decade-long campaign to discipline the armed forces from within. The case raises questions that history will answer slowly: whether this is the system correcting itself, or a sign of deeper fractures in the command structure Ch