China links family of ex-Politburo member Ma Xingrui to ‘rampant corruption’

Former Politburo member and Xinjiang Communist Party chief Ma Xingrui has been stripped of party membership and dismissed from public office following an anti-corruption investigation.
Ma, 67, who once headed China’s new-generation carrier rocket programme, is the third member of the Politburo – the party’s elite political body – to come under investigation in the current term that began in 2022, a situation unseen in decades.




Before his role in Xinjiang, Ma became deputy party secretary of...