China shuffled three senior military officials amid political horse-trading at the highest echelons of the Communist Party before a once-a-decade leadership transition next month.
General Ma Xiaotian, the army’s deputy chief of staff, was named to lead China’s air force, while Zhu Fuxi, former director of the air force’s political department, replaces Tian Xiusi as political commissar of the Chengdu area, Caixin magazine reported yesterday, citing an unidentified military source. Tian becomes air force political commissar, it said.
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