China named a new political commissar for its large ground forces, an unexpected move that signals President Xi Jinping is tightening military discipline. General Chen Hui has been appointed to instill political loyalty and manage manpower in the ground forces of the People’s Liberation Army, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday. The 61-year-old…
China executed a former official from Inner Mongolia over corruption charges totaling about 3 billion yuan ($412 million), a rare use of the death penalty for graft that comes with President Xi Jinping’s sweeping campaign to cleanse the Communist Party intensifying. Li Jianping, the former party chief of an economic development zone in Hohhot city,…
Chinese President Xi Jinping dismissed internal divisions within the ruling Communist Party as unavoidable, while calling for greater efforts to instill discipline, according to newly disclosed remarks he made at an anti-graft meeting in January. “Changes in the external environment and in the party membership will inevitably lead to various conflicts and problems within the…