Important Takeaways:

• China purges top army brass after US intel revealed they’d filled missiles with WATER instead of fuel and had a huge silo bunker with the wrong lids due to military corruption
• The news comes days after a startling New Year’s message from ruler Xi Jingping, who warned that ‘all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait’ will be ‘reunified.’
• The communist country’s top lawmakers ousted nine senior military officers from the national legislative body on Friday, state media reported, a step that typically precedes further punishment.
• Many of those removed were from the Rocket Force – a key arm of the Chinese army overseeing tactical and nuclear missiles.
• Now, American intelligence claims military corruption led to the mistakes, which also included fields of silos in Western China fitted with lids that stopped the missiles from launching.
• Since Xi took power in 2012, he has embarked on a wide-ranging anti-corruption crackdown among Communist Party and government officials, with the army being one of its main targets.

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