Divining the meaning of Xi Jinping's latest leadership purge

The Radio National Hour · Jan 27, 2026 · 55m

China’s president Xi Jinping has made a startling power play, purging the military’s top generals including one of his closest confidants on charges of corruption. Alone at the top of the world’s largest army, many now wonder what this means for President Xi’s ambition to retake Taiwan. Senior officials In Iran’s ministry of health say as many as 30,000 people may have been killed during a month of deadly protests. The stories emerging from the Islamic republic are harrowing. Dr Farnoush Nia is an Iranian born Australian doctor, who says there's evidence that people have been snatched from…