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China Purges Top Official Over Corruption and Sex Charges
The New York Times • • general
Key Points:
- Ma Xingrui, a senior Chinese Communist Party official and former party secretary of Xinjiang, has been expelled for corruption and abusing power for personal favors and sex.
- Ma is the third Politburo member to be ousted under Xi Jinping’s intensified anti-corruption campaign targeting top government officials.
- His removal marks a significant purge of the Politburo, reducing its membership to 21, following the expulsion of two military officials, He Weidong and Zhang Youxia.
- Experts note that Xi Jinping has lowered the threshold for disciplining Politburo members, signaling a strict message to party officials to comply with his directives.
