{"id":65743,"date":"2026-05-07T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/two-former-chinese-defence-ministers-sentenced-to-death-for-corruption\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:07:15","slug":"two-former-chinese-defence-ministers-sentenced-to-death-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/two-former-chinese-defence-ministers-sentenced-to-death-for-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Former Chinese Defence Ministers Sentenced To Death For Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Two former Chinese defence ministers, Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu, were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve over graft charges on Thursday, official media reported.<\/div>\n<div>Wei and his successor Li, who worked under President Xi Jinping\u2019s watch, were expelled from the ruling Communist Party in 2024.<\/div>\n<div>Wei served as Defence Minister from 2018 to 2023, and Li barely served a few months as his successor.<\/div>\n<div>Li, a Chinese aerospace engineer who headed the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s all-important Rocket (Missile) Force, was personally picked up for the top defence post by Xi himself. (PTI)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former Chinese defence ministers, Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu, were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve over graft charges on Thursday, official media reported.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65743","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}