General Xu Caihou of the People's Liberation Army of China and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates at the Pentagon (2009). U.S. Department of Defense.
Bo Zhiyue, The Diplomat: The Rise and Fall of Xu Caihou, China's Corrupt General
How Xu Caihou rose from nothing to the pinnacles of CCP power — and then lost everything.
Julius Caesar isn’t the only person who should “beware the ides of March.” March 15 also spelled doomsday for Xu Caihou, the former Central Military Commission vice chairman and Politburo member who was disgraced as the highest ranking officer in the People’s Liberation Army to be brought down for corruption since 1949. On March 15, 2014, then-General Xu Caihou was placed under investigation for corruption. Exactly one year later, on March 15, 2015, he died of bladder cancer.
WNU Editor: His death means that there will be no military show-trial in China .... it also means that the Chinese legal system may now be looking for someone else to have a trial that exposes corruption in the upper ranks of the Chinese military while proving that the Chinese legal system works.
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