New is just coming in that a member of China’s top military body commits suicide while facing a corruption probe, during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s five-year-old anti-graft campaign.
The 66-years-old senior Chinese military official named General Zhang Yang, hung himself Nov. 23 at his Beijing home while under investigation, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday. The political affairs chief for China’s 2-million-member military was among a pair of members of the elite Central Military Commission to go missing amid corruption rumours in August as Xi moved to shake-up the army leadership as reported by Bloomberg.
The military’s official mouthpiece, the People’s Liberation Army Daily, criticized Zhang’s death in a commentary Tuesday. “Zhang Yang committed suicide for fear of punishment! The once-powerful general ended his life in such a shameful way,” the piece said.
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