The Chinese Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that it had banished nine senior member of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers, including a former Politburo member, from the Communist Party for alleged corruption.
The latest purge at the top implicated General He Weidong (pictured), the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission – the second most powerful general in China. He disappeared in March without explanation after rising rapidly to the highest echelons in power in the country, repeating a pattern of several high-ranking Communist Party officials plucked from obscurity by genocidal dictator Xi Jinping himself, only to be unceremoniously stripped of their titles and disappeared from public life.
Xi seized power in China as “president” in 2013 and rapidly moved to build a massive bureaucratic ap
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