Zhang Dun, Ph.D., has covered current affairs and politics in China since 2010, and knows well the political system of the Chinese Communist Party. Previously, he was a chemical researcher at a Chinese institute, at Kyushu University in Japan, and at several institutes in the United States.
Support for Chinese Communist Party head Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign expressed by the military in mid-January may have signaled another round of purges of high-ranking military officers was coming.
In the wake of the purge of top security official Zhou Yongkang, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping appears to be making an explicit case against the former security czar.