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Nine high-ranking Chinese military figures were recently removed as delegates to the country's Communist Party-run legislature, without official explanation. The move indicates that President Xi Jinping's latest offensive to root out alleged corruption and other misconduct in the People's Liberation Army has been gaining momentum and is focused on the politically sensitive agencies responsible for developing weapons and military installations.

A scandal involving the top brass of the armed forces would be a setback for Xi Jinping, who has taken pride in turning the 98 million-strong Communist Party and the Chinese military into unquestioning enforcers of his rule.

Xi Jinping, China’s leader, set out to clean up the military a decade ago. But now his crown jewel, the missile force, is under a shadow.

As Xi Jinping has entrenched his hold on power in China, he has likened himself to a physician, eradicating the

Only five weeks ago, China’s foreign minister, Qin Gang, was at the center of an important restoration of high-level diplomacy in US-China relations: He shook hands with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing, and accepted an invitation to visit the United States.