Wall Street Journal: China’s senior-most general is accused of leaking information about the country’s nuclear-weapons program to the U.S. and accepting bribes for official acts, including the promotion of an officer to defense minister, said people familiar with a high-level briefing on the allegations…
Financial Times: The removal of Zhang and Liu reduces the CMC to its smallest size in history, leaving as its only members Xi, who heads the body, and Zhang Shengmin, a political commissar who leads the military’s anti-corruption watchdog and was promoted to CMC vice-chair in October.
Xi has been pushing to tighten his grip on the PLA for several years. The probe follows the purge last April of He Weidong, who was the number two general in the PLA after Zhang. While many analysts said Xi was trying to root out corruption, some argued that bigger factors were at play…