Defense ministers are relatively unimportant members of the high command but the investigation of Miao Hua is a huge deal for Xi and the PLA. Miao is in fact the *third* consecutive top political officer in the PLA to be purged, after Zhang Yang (who committed suicide rather than face trial) and

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