China kicks out two former defense ministers in military purge

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China expelled two former Communist Party defense ministers and launched corruption investigations into them, the latest crackdown sweeping the world’s largest military.

The unprecedented move against Wei Fenghe and his successor Li Shangfu followed a meeting of the party’s 24-man Politburo, the highest political body of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, state news agency Xinhua reported. 

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