Zhang Dun, Ph.D., has covered current affairs and politics in China since 2010, and knows well the political system of the Chinese Communist Party. Previously, he was a chemical researcher at a Chinese institute, at Kyushu University in Japan, and at several institutes in the United States.
Support for Chinese Communist Party head Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign expressed by the military in mid-January may have signaled another round of purges of high-ranking military officers was coming.