General Li Shangfu has not been seen in public since August, and is the second minister to have mysteriously disappeared.
| China has replaced Defence Minister General Li Shangfu, who has been out of public view for almost two months with little explanation, state media reported Tuesday.Li, who became defence minister during a Cabinet reshuffle in March, hasn’t been seen since giving a speech on August 29.
Xi has a reputation for valuing loyalty above all and has relentlessly attacked corruption in public and private, sometimes in what has been seen as a method of eliminating political rivals and shoring up his political position amid a deteriorating economy and rising tensions with US over trade, technology and Taiwan.
Li is under US sanctions related to his overseeing weapon purchases from Russia that bar him from entering the country. China has since cut off contacts with the US military, mainly in protest over US arm sales to Taiwan, but also strongly implying that Washington must lift the measures against Li, which Beijing refuses to publicly recognise.
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