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The unprecedented move against Wei Fenghe and his successor Li Shangfu followed a meeting of the party’s 24-man Politburo, the highest political body of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, state news agency
Li was fired in October, just seven months after he became defense minister. He mysteriously disappeared at the end of August without explanation and was stripped of his titles as state councilor, an odd move because officials from the CCP’s inner circle are rarely, if ever, removed. Xi said in June there were “deep-seated problems” in the Chinese military’s politics, ideology, work style and discipline. He has promised a corruption crackdown.