China expels record 33 members at party plenum with most empty seats

China's Communist Party expelled a record 33 Central Committee members, 16 of them from the military, as its fifth plenum ended in Beijing. Only 279 members attended, down from 315 last year, the first time under Xi Jinping's 14-year leadership that attendance fell below 300. Party discipline dominated the four-day closed-door meeting amid Xi's anti-corruption drive.