China's military purges hit a new peak after Gen. Zhang Youxia was ousted last month—reportedly over bribery and even alleged leaks to the US. Now Beijing has also dropped nine PLA deputies from the NPC list. HT used a new dataset from CSIS to explore China's military purges in detail.

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