China has suspended a top military official and placed him under investigation for corruption, the defense ministry said, as leader Xi Jinping broadens a sweeping purge in the upper ranks of the world’s largest military.
Admiral Miao Hua, a member of the powerful Central Military Commission , China’s top military body led by Xi, is under investigation for “serious violation of discipline” – a euphemism for corruption, Defense Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian said at a news conference Thursday. Miao, 69, heads the Political Work Department of the CMC. He is widely seen as a close ally of Xi, having served in the army in the coastal province of Fujian when Xi was a senior official there in the 1990s and early 2000s.
The ongoing turmoil in the upper ranks of the military comes as Xi is seeking to make China’s armed forces stronger, more combat-ready and more aggressive in asserting its disputed territorial claims in the region. As part of Xi’s ambition to transform the PLA into a “world class” fighting force, China has poured billions of dollars into buying and upgrading equipment.
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