China’s Minister of National Defense held its first press conference of 2015 on Thursday. Aside from a brief detour to talk about Chinese naval deployments in the Indian Ocean, the bulk of the questions and answers focused on a very different theme: corruption.

Defense ministry spokesman Col. Yang Yujun fielded three separate questions on anti-corruption efforts within the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), giving lengthy responses each time.

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