The purge of China’s powerful defence and security establishment continued as top military officials, including a senior general, chief of navy and a nuclear scientist, were expelled from the national legislature on Friday.
General Miao Hua along with Vice Admiral Li Hanjun, chief of staff of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), and Liu Shipeng, deputy chief engineer of China National Nuclear Corporation, have been removed from the National People’s Congress (NPC), the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.
Li is the latest of a string of PLA generals and a handful of defence industry executives to have been implicated in a sweeping crackdown in the military, the Post reported. PTI
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