Li Shangfu, who has not been seen for two weeks, is under ‘house arrest’, claims US ambassador to Japan
China’s defence minister has not been seen in almost three weeks with speculation he is under investigation, the latest case of a senior Communist party official to disappear from public view.
General Li Shangfu was last seen on 29 August when he gave a speech to the China-Africa peace and security forum. His last overseas trip was to Moscow and Minsk in mid-August, where he met Russian officials on the sidelines of a security conference, and with Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko.
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