BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping struck a key blow in his fight against pervasive graft on Monday with the expulsion from the Communist Party of a former high-ranking military commander who had risen to near the very apex of power in China.
Xu Caihou, who retired as vice chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission last year and from the party's decision-making Politburo in 2012, is the highest-ranking military officer to be accused of corruption in China.
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