Chinese President Xi Jinping’s on-going crusade to clean up the Communist Party appears to be expanding, and unearthing new instances of graft. This past weekend, anti-corruption czar Wang Qishan vowed to use new methods to continue the campaign against cadres who, he says, “seem to have forgotten that they are party members, didn’t learn discipline, are apt to ignore regulations and act shamelessly.”
But according to commentaries in the state-controlled media, Xi’s ongoing and apparently escalating crusade to punish corruption is exposing something else that all too many Chinese officials seem to be lacking: the commitment—the “courage” as some critiques have put it–to do the right sort of work.
That lack of nerve is described as a persistent problem in Sichuan, a province where anti-corruption inspectors have discovered a multitude of malfeasance and a power base of ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang, who’s also under investigation. It’s likely not the only place where graft has been thriving.
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