China Ousts 3 Defense Leaders as Purge Widens

Xu Dazhe, Chairman of China Atomic Energy Authority, talks at the opening session of the 58th IAEA General Conference in Vienna on Sept. 22, 2014. Dieter Nagl/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Chinese leadership has expelled two senior military commanders and an aerospace leader from the Communist Party-controlled legislature, as purges of key personnel in the nation’s defense establishment continue.Maj. Gen. Sun Bin, the military’s top auditor, has been removed as a delegate to the National People’s Congress (NPC), a legislative body that rubber-stamps the decisions made by the Communist Party leadership.