Another Chinese Politburo Member Falls

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Another Chinese Politburo member faces official investigation, Taiwan’s opposition leader visits China, and a Chinese researcher dies under suspicious circumstances at a U.S. university. Xi’s Purge Targets Politburo Member Ma Xingrui, a former high-flying technocrat and Xinjiang party secretary, is officially under investigation for corruption charges. That makes him the third member of the current Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo to fall amid President Xi Jinping’s latest purge, as well as the first civilian member. There are two likely reasons for Ma’s targeting. The first is that Ma was exceptionally…