China military calls for efforts to repair image after scandals


FILE PHOTO: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet meets with He Weidong, visiting vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Dec. 4, 2023. CMC Vice Chairman He Weidong, also a Politburo member, has been absent from official events for months, though no public evidence of wrongdoing has emerged. - Xinhua

BEIJING: China’s top military body has ordered a sweeping overhaul to restore the credibility of political leaders as the commission faces its largest vacancy in years following a series of corruption scandals.

The Central Military Commission issued regulations in recent days to "comprehensively purge toxic influence and rebuild the image and credibility of political leaders,” the official People’s Liberation Army Daily reported Monday (July 21) on its front page.

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