China’s Top Military Official With Ties to Opposition Faction Taken Down

China’s Top Military Official With Ties to Opposition Faction Taken Down
Top general Fang Fenghui attends a meeting at the Bayi Building in Beijing on August 15, 2017. Thomas Peter/AFP/Getty Images
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Since 2009, senior military official Fang Fenghui was in charge of orchestrating China’s grand military parades, a mighty show of the country’s defense powers. That year, notably, was the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party seizing power.
However, this high-ranking official met his downfall on Jan. 9, when the Chinese regime announced that Fang will be prosecuted for bribery.
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Annie Wu joined the full-time staff at the Epoch Times in July 2014. That year, she won a first-place award from the New York Press Association for best spot news coverage. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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