Delegates vote during the election of the new chairman of China during the 12th National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 14, 2013. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
The recent purge of top Chinese nuclear and missile experts exposes severe flaws in the regime’s military hardware, suggesting that high-ranking generals have no confidence in their own weapons, experts say.
The Chinese Academy of Engineering has removed three of its top academics from its website, including two former vice presidents of the organization, Wu Manqing and Zhao Xiaogeng. Wei Yiyin was a former deputy general manager of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation.
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