Chinese General Under Investigation, Joining a Line of Fallen Commanders
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Chinese General Under Investigation, Joining a Line of Fallen Commanders
But Liberation Army Daily, the main newspaper of the Chinese military, suggested
that General Fang belonged to a group of corrupt commanders that included Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou, the most senior Chinese military officers taken down by graft charges.
9, 2018
BEIJING — A senior Chinese general who won the national spotlight by overseeing a grand military parade
and who vowed unwavering support for President Xi Jinping’s drive against corruption has come under investigation for graft, the latest in a string of People’s Liberation Army commanders to fall.
"The target of his bribes must be shocking." As a member of the Central Military Commission, which runs the People’s Liberation Army,
and chief of staff of the Joint Staff Department, General Fang, 66, helped enforce a drastic reorganization of the military forces that Mr. Xi began in 2015.
Zhang Yang, another Chinese commander who disappeared around the same time as General Fang, avoided
that fate by hanging himself in his home in November, Chinese military media reported at the time.
Liberation Army Daily said that ideals and convictions had been shaken, he abandoned
the mission of the party and degenerated politically, becoming economic
Chinese said that In fact, as early as 2003, he was already a senior military officer at military region deputy level,
But Liberation Army Daily, the main newspaper of the Chinese military, suggested
that General Fang belonged to a group of corrupt commanders that included Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou, the most senior Chinese military officers taken down by graft charges.
9, 2018
BEIJING — A senior Chinese general who won the national spotlight by overseeing a grand military parade
and who vowed unwavering support for President Xi Jinping’s drive against corruption has come under investigation for graft, the latest in a string of People’s Liberation Army commanders to fall.
"The target of his bribes must be shocking." As a member of the Central Military Commission, which runs the People’s Liberation Army,
and chief of staff of the Joint Staff Department, General Fang, 66, helped enforce a drastic reorganization of the military forces that Mr. Xi began in 2015.
Zhang Yang, another Chinese commander who disappeared around the same time as General Fang, avoided
that fate by hanging himself in his home in November, Chinese military media reported at the time.
Liberation Army Daily said that ideals and convictions had been shaken, he abandoned
the mission of the party and degenerated politically, becoming economic
Chinese said that In fact, as early as 2003, he was already a senior military officer at military region deputy level,