China's Central Military Commission Is Down to Two Members After Party Meeting

At China's Communist Party fifth plenum, a meeting of its senior Central Committee, only 279 of the 376 members named in 2022 attended, according to The Guardian. The seven-member Central Military Commission, which oversees the armed forces, now has two members: Xi Jinping and Zhang Shengmin. Zhang Youxia, once second-in-command in the military, was expelled.