CHINA-INTERNAL: PLA ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN
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The South China Morning Post reported on July 8, 2016, that General Tian Xiusi, 66, former Political Commissar in the PLA Air Force and member of the CCP's 18th Central Committee, has been placed under “shuanggui". A book published earlier this year by Chen Xi, a former official in a department affiliated with the former Lanzhou Military Command, alleges that Tian Xiusi paid 50 million yuan (HK$58 million) to the disgraced former military chief Guo Boxiong to secure the position of Political Commissar in 2012. (Comment: Tian Xiusi made his last public appearance on July 1, 2016, when as Deputy Head of the NPC Foreign Affairs Committee he took part in a group discussion on food safety legislation. Tian Xiusi left the PLAAF in early July last year.)
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