Gen. He Weidong's Absentness Fuels Speculation

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Reading the tree leaves: Why a no-show by China’s No.2 general has speculation running wild

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Gen. He Weidong , the second -highest-ranking uniformed officer in the People’s Liberation Army , was nowhere to be seen.

The 67-year-old hasn’t appeared in public for three weeks since March 11 .

Rumors about an investigation against He surfaced among the Chinese dissident community following China 's annual political meetings last month .

The commander of the Eastern Theater Command from 2019 to 2022 was He.

He is widely believed to have forged close personal ties with Xi during their overlapping years in Fujian , where the future Chinese leader was rising through the ranks as a local official in the 1990s and early 2000s .

More than a dozen high-ranking figures in China ’s defense establishment have been ousted in a sweeping purge.

The last time a sitting CMC vice chair was purged was more than three decades ago .

Zhao Ziyang was ousted for sympathizing with student protesters in the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement.

Char : "I don’t think anyone in the system now is irreplaceable".

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