Chinese leader Xi Jinping extended his purge of the upper echelons of China’s armed forces.
A senior official was removed from the country’s top military command body, the Central Military Commission, while the navy chief of staff and a top nuclear scientist were fired from China’s legislature: In all, eight officials were removed, more than a dozen generals and defense industry figures have been investigated for corruption, and the vice-chair of the CMC has not been seen publicly for months.
Xi once sought to single out officials to deter graft in the wider ranks — killing the chicken to scare the monkeys, as Beijing put it. Now, one analyst said, he is “killing the monkeys.”
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