China’s President Xi Jinping has launched yet another sweeping purge of the military, expelling nine top generals including the country’s second-highest-ranking officer in what can be called as one of the largest public crackdowns on the armed forces in decades.The nine senior officials were accused of “seriously violating party discipline” and showing a “total collapse…
Colombo: The recent detention of Liu Jianchao, one of China’s most prominent diplomats and head of the International Liaison Department, is “less about corruption and more about control” as Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive has evolved into a mechanism for political survival and control, a report highlighted recently. The news of Liu Jianchao, widely…
China has removed Jin Zhuanglong as party chief of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, two months after he disappeared from public view. He has been replaced by Li Lecheng, 59, the governor of the struggling northeastern rust-belt province of Liaoning, according to the ministry’s website. He was also removed from a list of…
Top Chinese military officials pledged to fight corruption and strengthen war readiness while visiting People’s Liberation Army troops ahead of Lunar New Year. General Zhang Youxia, first-ranked vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), China’s top military decision-making body, recently inspected a unit of the Information Support Force in the northeastern city of Shenyang,…
Wanted: university graduates aged between 20 and 35 years, with no criminal record and a height of at least 170cm (5.57ft) for men and 158cm for women. Military veterans or police college students preferred. The very public ads have been cropping up online, posted by recruiters across China in search of people for a very…
President Xi Jinping has urged the Communist Party’s top decision makers to boost self-discipline, and closely watch family members and subordinates as China continues its battle against corruption. In a speech to the Politburo on Friday, Xi said members must be strict both with themselves and with those around them, according to state news agency…
At a key meeting on Monday of the State Council, China’s cabinet, officials were urged to “revitalise and develop” the country’s football industry and bring it into a “new phase”. It was an unexpected agenda item at a meeting, chaired by Premier Li Qiang, that was largely focused on implementing decisions from the Communist Party’s…
China on Tuesday executed Li Jianping, a former official in the north Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, who was convicted in the largest-ever corruption case in the country totalling to over USD 421 million. Chinese President Xi Jinping has made the anti-corruption campaign the main plank of his governance model. (Representative Image) The death sentence of…
Chinese President Xi Jinping dismissed internal divisions within the ruling Communist Party as unavoidable, while calling for greater efforts to instill discipline, according to newly disclosed remarks he made at an anti-graft meeting in January.“Changes in the external environment and in the party membership will inevitably lead to various conflicts and problems within the party,”…
However, more than a decade later, the party has come to realise many have exploited this to make false accusations against officials. At a major party conclave in July, Xi and other top officials pledged to “take stronger steps to handle false accusations”. Observers say unfounded claims about corruption waste resources, undermine careers, dampen morale…