High-ranking military official in China suspended and placed under investigation

If the investigation is about corruption, it’s not out of line with people’s expectations,

said Tiehlin Yan, deputy director at the Taiwan Center for Security Studies, who studied the PLA

Most countries would incur at least some reputational cost to their international reputation were such frequent, high-profile personnel purges to have happened in their own armed forces – but the PRC is no ordinary country,

James Char, a research fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore, said in an email

Clearly, Xi Jinping's trust in yet another of his uniformed subordinates has been misplaced,

said Char, of Singapore's S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Wu Qian (military officer)spokesperson

The reports in question are pure fabrications,

Wu said

The rumour mongers are ill-intentioned. China expresses its strong dissatisfaction with such slanderous behaviour,

Wu told reporters in a direct reference to the FT report