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Jul 07, 2021 10:03 PM EDT
(Photo : Photo credit should read Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images) FUYANG, CHINA - JULY 4, 2021 - A citizen watches a live TV broadcast of China s first spacewalk of a space station astronaut at his home in Fuyang, Anhui province, China, July 4, 2021.
Chinese authorities have arrested an aerospace executive on Monday after being involved in an alleged brutal assault of two astronaut scientists last month who refused his request to join an international academy.
The attack was caught on video that has now begun circulating online, showing how the Chinese official, Zhang Tao, chairman of state-owned China Aerospace Investment Holdings, punched Wu Meirong and Wang Jinnian. The incident occurred after a dinner on June 6 in Beijing that was filled with alcoholic beverages.