Xi's 'anti-graft' purge continues: Two senior generals expelled from CCP, Chinese military

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has expelled two senior officers from the party and the armed forces over "economic wrongdoing" and “serious violations of discipline and law," state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.Zhang Youxia, a vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the CCP’s top military command body, was second-in-command under President Xi Jinping and has long been regarded as one of his closest military allies. Liu Zhenli was also a CMC member and headed its Joint Staff Department.Investigations against Zhang and Liu were announced in January, and both were removed from the state Central Military Commission in late August.The CCP leadership accused the two officers of “disloyalty, corruption, dereliction of duty” and other serious disciplinary violations.Zhang and Liu “seriously violated political discipline and political rules, formed cliques and factions, and were disloyal and dishonest to the party”, Xinhua cited official documents as saying.The two “crossed red lines and basic limits”, the documents said, adding that their “political and economic wrongdoing were intertwined, and "corrupt self-enrichment" coexisted with dereliction of duty and ...