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Zhao Xiaozhe removed from Chinese Academy of Engineering site
SCMP Economy notes the defense software expert is also missing from the academy’s online museum of academicians, after other military-linked profiles were taken down earlier this year.
A top Chinese naval software expert, Zhao Xiaozhe, has been removed from the Chinese Academy of Engineering’s online membership list, according to SCMP Economy. The outlet said the 63-year-old vice-admiral in the PLA Navy had work linked to how warships process battlefield information and support combat decisions.
SCMP Economy reported that Zhao is the latest prominent defense figure to disappear from the academy’s website. The outlet said his removal follows earlier reporting in March about unexplained takedowns of profiles tied to a nuclear weapons scientist, a radar specialist, and a missile designer.
The article also said Zhao was reportedly absent from a high-level Communist Party study session on artificial intelligence chaired by President Xi Jinping in April last year, with his deputy attending instead. SCMP Economy added that Zhao’s profile has also been taken down from the academy’s separate online museum of academicians.
SCMP Economy said Zhao was elected to the academy in 2011 while at the Dalian Naval Academy, where he served as a professor and doctoral supervisor. The outlet added that he directed the academy’s Combat Software and Simulation Research Institute.