
Xi targets petty corruption on a giant scale to soothe China’s masses
Communist Party enforcers are targeting grassroots graft from kickbacks for public contracts to bribes for medical treatment in a renewal of Xi’s popular assault on corrupt “flies” and “ants”—low-level bureaucrats and state workers—whose misconduct affects ordinary citizens. Such energetic enforcement is pushing Xi’s war on corruption to new levels of intensity, more than a decade…