[Markoff]

As someone who lived in China for years I fail to see what's the news here exactly? It would be strange, if as CCP official he didn't use his position to do this and other criminal acts. You better write articles about not doing it, those will be actually shocking revelations.

[bmn__]

> what's the news here exactly?

News was allowed to get out to the point that one could hear about that on abroad platforms. Usually anything that rocks the proverbial boat gets censored without trace.

Either there was a fuck-up of epic proportions with several fail-safes in a row not triggering, or (conspiracy theory) this is on purpose to "bury"/distract from more important news or to discredit Zhang so he can be removed easier by his enemies.

[Markoff]

judging by Chinese politics I would say B is right, he must became inconvenient, I'd not say distract staight away

[FooBarWidget]

Hasn't the anti-corruption campaign improved things?

[Markoff]

you mean the Removing inconvenient wings/competitors in CCP campaign? anti-coruption campaign LOL

[FooBarWidget]

Please be more specific. Regardless of whether there was a secondary motive of purging political opponents, are you saying that it was ineffective in actually addressing corruption? Can you show some data?

[AussieWog93]

From what I've heard, purging opponents was not the secondary motive but the primary.

[FooBarWidget]

I think of it rather as killing two birds in one stone.

[Markoff]

it's ineffective if you replace one corrupted opponent with corrupted friend, that's not anti-coruption campaign by my standards, that's just purging opponents, because you are not really improving things, makes almost as much sense as war on drugs

[FooBarWidget]

Where is the data that shows that the replacements are also corrupt?

[nradov]

That's like asking for data on the levels of corruption in a mafia family. No one is allowed to gather such data, but it's pretty obvious that the corruption at higher levels approaches 100%.

[Markoff]

good luck finding data in China, where even own premier doesn't believe them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqiang_index