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Corruption Purge could claim Standing Committee Member

October 26th, 2006 · 9 Comments

NYT reports this morning that the Hu/Zeng crime fighting dynamic duo have turned their sites on Beijing–and Standing Committee Member, Beijing party secretary, and Jiang Zemin ally Jia Qinglin could become the first member of that elite club to be purged for corruption since the CCP took power in 1949.
“A widening Chinese anti-corruption probe has [...]

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