Despite the intensity and scope of the anti-corruption campaign still roiling the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, the Party leader, says that a knockout blow has yet to be dealt.
“Looking back at the problems found with investigations in the last two years, the anti-corruption struggle continues to be severe and complicated,” Xi said at a recent meeting held by the Party’s disciplinary taskforce, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
His remarks were published by the state-run Xinhua with the ominous (and typically wordy) headline: “Xi Jinping: Pushing the Anti-Corruption Campaign Deeper, With Anyone Being a Potential Target Regardless of His Political Standing.”
The stern remarks came on the heels of earlier warnings that factionalism—the forming of political cliques to protect the private interests of Party members—would not be tolerated.
