CHINA’S ANTI-GRAFT CAMPAIGN NETS SENIOR LEADERS, BUT ‘RED ARISTOCRACY’ REMAINS UNSCATHED
March 1st, 2016
China’s leaders are fond of aphorisms and extended metaphors, the pithier the better. Witness Mao Zedong’s ‘Hundred Flowers’ movement in 1956, which encouraged citizens to express their criticism of the communist party, and Deng Xiaoping’s much-quoted ‘To Get Rich is Glorious’. The same applies – it seems – to China’s anti-fraud and corruption policies. Once the People’s Republic current president Xi Jinping took power in March 2013, he promoted a wide-ranging anti-graft campaign to root out the ‘tigers and flies’ – high-ranking ...
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