China’s Communist Party targets another PLA Rocket Force chief in corruption investigation
- Communique at the end of the third plenum states that Sun Jinming, chief of staff of the PLA’s Rocket Force was expelled from the party
China’s Communist Party has announced an anti-corruption investigation into yet another senior general who oversaw its nuclear arsenal, adding to a slew of military leaders disgraced over the past year.
The corruption probe into Lieutenant General Sun, which had already been concluded, was endorsed by the plenum.
Sun’s downfall followed anti-corruption probes since last year into at least seven past or serving senior military officials from the PLA’s Rocket Force, which oversees the country’s nuclear arsenal, in the latest anti-corruption purge in the military since last year.
Sun, an alternate member of the party’s 20th Central Committee, took on the role of chief of staff of the force in 2022 after serving a long stint in its predecessor, the Second Artillery Corps.
