China Ousts Another High-Ranking Military Leader as Purge Deepens

Miao Hua, who oversaw the entire military’s loyalty to the CCP for seven years as an ally of Xi Jinping, has been expelled from the rubber-stamped legislature.

Adm. Miao Hua (C), China's director of the political affairs department of the Central Military Commission, disembarks his aircraft after arriving at Pyongyang International Airport on October 14, 2019. Kim Won Jin/AFP via Getty Images

A senior member of the Chinese military elite has been removed as delegate to the Communist Party-run legislature, a development that casts a shadow over the fate of another longtime ally of leader Xi Jinping.

China announced the decision late on Wednesday to expel Adm. Miao Hua in an online statement from the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.