China investigates defense minister for corruption

It’s certainly a blow … because one would imagine they will be super careful to have someone very clean in this role,

Dylan Loh, an assistant professor at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, told the AFP news agency

Graft probes are very commonly targeted at the military because of the long historical ties between the business world and the PLA,

he said

The problem is that competition for top positions is so fierce that there might be some mutual recriminations between officers, which would lead to endless cycles of arrests, new appointments and recriminations,

he said

Nothing would surprise me anymore,

said Dennis Wilder, a professor at Georgetown University and former U.S. intelligence official on China