"Xi Jinping has executed a sweeping anti-corruption campaign that has targeted hundreds of thousands of officials at all levels of government and state-owned industry." He has stated, "'The problems among our party members and cadres - of corruption, taking bribes, being out of touch with the people - must be addressed with great effort'... In perhaps the most important phrase of his campaign, Mr Xi stated in 2013 that... 'We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials, and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people,'" writes ABC.  

According to Reuters, "Police in Shanghai have arrested 10 Turkish nationals suspected of supplying fake passports to ethnic Uighurs from China's far-western region of Xinjiang who were described as terrorist suspects by state media. Hundreds of people have been killed in resource-rich Xinjiang, strategically located on the borders of central Asia, in violence in the past two years between the Muslim Uighur people and ethnic majority Han Chinese... 'Fighting illegal immigration is a common desire of the international community and is the Chinese government's consistent position as well as what (the government) advocates. We are willing to cooperate closely with the international community of this issue,'" said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei. 

The New York Times writes, "The embattled leader of Hong Kong's government warned on Wednesday that concessions to pro-democracy demonstrators could invite anarchy, as he laid out measures to defuse public anger over housing and inequality that resounded with the protesters who seized streets for 11 weeks last year. Leung Chun-ying, the chief executive of Hong Kong, offered the proposals in his first major policy package since the street demonstrations ended last month...On Wednesday, Mr. Leung sought to counter the discontent over economic issues while ruling out any retreat from his plan for changing the city's electoral rules. That plan, endorsed by the Chinese government, was the trigger for the protests last year; it would give residents a direct vote for the chief executive, but only from among two or three candidates screened by a committee dominated by members loyal to Beijing."