Editor’s note: The anti-corruption campaign surging through China is the most significant political event in the country’s recent history. Led by Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping and his deputy Wang Qishan, it has heavily targeted officials closely tied to Jiang Zemin, for years the Party’s behind-the-scenes godfather. These include the punishing takedowns of officials like Zhou Yongkang, Su Rong, Xu Caihou, and others. Along with the arrests of those “tigers,” as they are called in official parlance, the campaign has been swatting “flies”—officials at a lower rank who engage in corruption—across the country. This regular column documents Xi Jinping’s war against corruption in the Party as events take place.
Barely four days after it was announced, the Party’s new anti-corruption operation against absconded officials has two in the bag.
Top Tianjin officials Pang Shunxi and An Huimin were arrested on March 28 in Laos and flown back to China as part of the “Sky Net“ initiative, according to the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection—the Chinese regime’s anti-corruption agency.
