An article in a newspaper in southern China printed on its front page a cartoon that netizens say mocks former head of the Chinese Communist Party Jiang Zemin.

Based on media reports, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has already gone to places where Jiang Zemin and his sons have made their fortunes.

The Chinese regime’s great Internet firewall has recently become more difficult to scale. An international human rights meeting in Geneva was the reason why.

A softer handling of incidents related to Falun Gong in China in recent weeks show that the iron-clad strength of Chinese security chief Zhou Yongkang’s police apparatus, along with his influence, is on the wane.