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A large crowd cheered as Honnold scaled the more than 1,600-foot-high blue glass and steel skyscraper with nothing more than his hands and some chalk, no rope, and no safety net.
He said he'd been thinking of climbing Taipei 101 for years.
At 101 stories tall, Taipei 101 is one of the tallest buildings in Asia and built in a high-risk earthquake zone, which it compensates for with an internal steel damper that sways whenever there's a quake to counteract it and stop the building from breaking in half.
In total, the climb took Honnold about an hour and a half.
A large crowd cheered as Honnold scaled the more than 1,600-foot-high blue glass and steel skyscraper with nothing more than his hands and some chalk, no rope, and no safety net.
He said he'd been thinking of climbing Taipei 101 for years.
At 101 stories tall, Taipei 101 is one of the tallest buildings in Asia and built in a high-risk earthquake zone, which it compensates for with an internal steel damper that sways whenever there's a quake to counteract it and stop the building from breaking in half.
In total, the climb took Honnold about an hour and a half.
General Zhang Youxia is being investigated for suspected violations of Communist Party discipline.
75-year-old Zhang is a veteran of one of the only foreign wars China's military has fought, and like China's top leader Xi Jinping, Zhang is what political analysts call a princeling, the son of a senior revolutionary who fought in a 1940 civil war which propelled the ruling Communist Party to power.
A defense ministry spokesperson also said another general, Liu Zhenli, was under investigation as well.
This past October, China's defense ministry officially removed nine generals from its ranks.
And in Xi Jinping's consolidation of power, he has purged several other high-level defense officials in an effort to tighten discipline and reduce corruption.
And I'm Duah Li, Psi Kowtow, NPR News in New York City.
General Zhang Yousha is being investigated for suspected violations of Communist Party discipline.
75-year-old Zhang is a veteran of one of the only foreign wars China's military has fought.