China Ousts 3 Defense Leaders as Purge Widens

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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.

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