Apparently Zhang Youxia's purge was in no small part because he didn't think Xi's readiness demands to take Taiwan by 2027 was all that reasonable. In some publicly available documents, Zhang pushed some of these to 2035.

I'm curious if this like ever happend before in the history of Communist China, for a military leader to publicly dilute the political leaderships' demands/objectives.

Apparently Zhang Youxia's purge was in no small part because he didn't think Xi's readiness demands to take Taiwan by 2027 were all that reasonable. In some publicly available documents, Zhang pushed some of these to 2035.

I'm curious if something like this has ever happened before in the history of Communist China, for a military leader to publicly dilute the political leadership's demands/objectives.