China’s Defense Minister Li Shangfu was fired on Tuesday two months after he disappeared from public view, becoming the second high-profile minister to lose his job recently without any official explanation.

Li was also removed from his positions as a member of the Central Military Commission – a powerful body headed by Chinese leader Xi Jinping who ultimately commands the armed forces – and as one of China’s five state councillors – a senior position in the cabinet that outranks a regular minister, state broadcaster CCTV reported Tuesday.

The decision was approved by the standing committee of the country’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, according to CCTV. The committee did not name any successor to Li.

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    1 year ago

    this is the guy who disappeared in an inky cloud of corruption a while back… all their generals are exactly as corrupt as Russian generals… they sell off materiel, they buy their ranks outright with cash, they pile up huge gambling debts and hooker bills which they pay for with military funds… they’re hilarious… their military is a joke…