James Char is a research fellow with the China program of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
The continued absence from public view of Chinese Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu and other leading generals suggests a major purge of the People's Liberation Army is underway.
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