Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign has claimed its first victim from the senior diplomatic ranks, as the foreign ministry announced that an assistant minister was under investigation for corruption.
Zhang Kunsheng has been ousted as assistant minister of foreign affairs and is “suspected of discipline” violation, the ministry said, using the standard shorthand for graft.
Mr Zhang ranked below the foreign minister and six deputy ministers, but was the most senior of four assistant ministers. He was responsible for Latin American and Caribbean affairs and was also chief of the protocol department, according to his official biography.
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