China Ousts 3 Defense Leaders as Purge Widens

Chinese military’s top auditor and former chairman of the nation’s largest missile maker were among those ousted from Beijing’s rubber-stamp legislature.
China Ousts 3 Defense Leaders as Purge Widens
Xu Dazhe, Chairman of China Atomic Energy Authority, talks at the opening session of the 58th IAEA General Conference in Vienna on Sept. 22, 2014. Dieter Nagl/AFP via Getty Images
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The Chinese leadership has expelled two senior military commanders and an aerospace leader from the Communist Party-controlled legislature, as purges of key personnel in the nation’s defense establishment continue.

Maj. Gen. Sun Bin, the military’s top auditor, has been removed as a delegate to the National People’s Congress (NPC), a legislative body that rubber-stamps the decisions made by the Communist Party leadership.