Exclusive | Official indictment of fallen Chinese defence minister Wei Fenghe may include coded hint he was compromised by hostile force
Of the all top generals who fell in Xi’s war against corruption, Wei was the only one described as “zhongcheng shi jie” or “ being disloyal and losing one’s chastity”. The hard-to-translate phrase “shi jie” has its origins in Chinese history, where it was used to describe the moral degradation of the scholar-gentry who formed … Read more