Warmongering Hardline Chinese General Zhang Wannian Dies

Zhang Wannian, former vice chairman of the Chinese regime’s Central Military Commission (CMC), passed away on Jan. 14 in Beijing. Zhang is mostly known for challenging the former Chinese leader Hu Jintao, and for his statement in 2000 when he threatened an imminent war with Taiwan.

Chinese Communist Party head Jiang Zemin (C) chats with Shandong Communist Party Secretary Wu Guanzheng (L) and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) General Zhang Wannian in Beijing, March 6, 2000. At a Party meeting in 2002, Zhang would propose that Jiang be retained as head of the CMC for two years after his scheduled retirement. Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images

Best remembered for taunting the former top Chinese leader, Hu Jintao, and saber-rattling against Taiwan, the former vice chairman of the Chinese regime’s Central Military Commission (CMC), Zhang Wannian passed away on Jan. 14 in Beijing, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

Zhang had a distinguished military career as a commander of the military in Guangzhou Province and in the capital of eastern Shandong Province, Jinan. He was later promoted to lieutenant general in 1988 and to general in 1993, and eventually appointed to be vice chairman of the powerful commission that rules the Chinese regime’s military.

It was Zhang's warmongering antics that he would be remembered for the most.