Beijing's first aircraft carrier will take part in a naval review Tuesday marking the People's Republic navy's 70th anniversary, joined by latest-generation nuclear submarines, destroyers and fighter jets.
Fang Fenghui, former chief of the People's Liberation Army's joint staff department, is the latest military figure to fall in President Xi Jinping's crackdown on graft and waste at all levels of the government and military.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told reporters on Monday that China dispatched planes and ships to demand that the guided-missile destroyer McCampbell leave waters around the Paracel Islands.
