Senior Chinese diplomat Sun Weidong has been dismissed from his role as vice minister of foreign affairs, amid ongoing high-level removals linked to the government’s anticorruption campaign. The Ministry of Human Resources announced the dismissal without specifying the reasons, though such removals often suggest impending investigations. Sun’s recent activities included meetings with ambassadors from Brunei and Malaysia, and his removal is part of a broader crackdown on corruption that has seen over one million cases investigated in the past year.
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