The highlights this week: China announces a purge of military leaders , the Chinese Communist Party’s Fourth Plenum kicks off in Beijing, and fallout from a Chinese spy scandal continues in the United Kingdom.
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The highlights this week: China announces a purge of military leaders, the Chinese Communist Party’s Fourth Plenum kicks off in Beijing, and fallout from a Chinese spy scandal continues in the United Kingdom.
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China Announces Military Purges
Last Friday, China’s Ministry of National Defense announced the expulsion of nine top military leaders from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) due to “serious job-related crimes.” Among those expelled are Gen. He Weidong, a member of the Politburo and a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Adm. Miao Hua, a top political commissar.
This wasn’t a dramatic overnight strike against Chinese President Xi Jinping’s foes, as some of the headlines have suggested.
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