Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan. You can get in touch with Micah by emailing [email protected].

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President Xi Jinping of China has renewed his call for corruption, describing it as the ultimate serious risk to the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCC).

Newsweek communicated with the email of the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs to comment.

Xi launched a sweeping anti-corruption campaign after taking leadership of the CCP in 2012. Since then, probes have been launched into more than 4 million members of the 99-million-strong party, spanning low-ranking “fly” officials to high-ranking “tigers.”

Many observers have reported that XI, now in its third historical term, has used anti -corruption repression to compete and place more in the midst of China’s political hierarchy.

China’s top disciplinary agency began a three-day plenary session in Beijing on Monday to outline priorities for this year’s anti-corruption campaign.

Addressing participants on Monday, Xi called corruption “the biggest risk to our party. “Highlighting the successes and what he called “clearer and firmer action on the main factor of self-revolution,” he pledged to continue “the cadres and the purifying forces. “

In 2024, the Central Committee, CPC’s first resolution organization, introduced probes into 58 high-risk “tigers,” according to Xinhua. In addition, 433,000 “flies” of line shrinking have been disciplined, with 14,000 proceedings for prosecution since April, he reported.

The prominent figures in the Anti -Corruption Crusade come with former Foreign Minister Qin Gang and Li Shangfu and Wei Fenghe, the two defense ministers that preceded the existing occupant of this office, Dong Jun.

The fact that many of those who have served have occupied higher level roles in the popular liberation army (PL), adding their rocket force, guilty of China’s nuclear arsenal, has asked questions about the XI about the army and countertop His distrust of the organization.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, speaking in Beijing on Monday, vowed, “Step up our efforts to oppose corruption and eliminate the soil and reproduction of corruption. “

“It would thus seem that the ‘pool’ Xi is drawing on to replace corrupt officials is also full of corrupt officials. If Xi is promoting corrupt officials, this suggests the party’s internal vetting apparatus is not functioning effectively or, more seriously, is itself corrupted.”

XI’s anti -corruption crusade shows no slowdown symptoms, with a specific one in the army.

In November, Miao Hua, a member of the Central Military Commission led through XI, have become the last senior official to be targeted. MIAO has been suspended pending an investigation into “a serious breach of discipline,” a word used through the CCP to refer to corruption.

CNN recently pointed to the lifestyles of 218 newly built or extended facilities under the “Liuzhi” or “detention hold” formula, introduced in 2018. These centers sparked a complaint about their potential for abuse, as anyone in a position of “public power” whether they are a member of the PCC or not, can have up to six months without legal counsel or a family.

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan. You can get in touch with Micah by emailing [email protected].

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan. You can get in touch with Micah by emailing [email protected].