Chinese President Xi Jinping’s relatives continue to hold millions of dollars in business ventures and financial investments, suggests a recent US intelligence report. The findings also suggest that despite Xi’s decade-long anti-corruption drive, which has seen the prosecution of millions of officials across all levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) there still remains “endemic”…
BEIJING — A former Chinese aerospace defense executive has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party for corruption, China’s anti-graft watchdog said on Monday, part of a sweeping anti-corruption purge across China’s military-industrial complex. The former chairman of Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Tan Ruisong, “lived off the military sector” and took a huge amount…
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…
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…