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Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

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Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign
Xi Jinping, Chinese president and general secretary of the Communist Party, launched in 2012 a high-profile campaign targeting party, government, military and state-owned company officials suspected of corruption. The campaign has led to the investigation and prosecution of hundreds of officials across the country.
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9 September, 2024
Miao Hua has been suspended from duty and is under investigation for “suspected serious disciplinary violations”, usually a euphemism for corruption. Photo: Handout
China’s Communist Party

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China’s Communist Party

Chinese football legend and Everton player Li Tie gets 20 years for corruption

The national men’s team coach and former English Premier League player is the latest high-profile sports figure to fall in China’s anti-graft campaign.

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Former soccer star Li Tie, who played for Everton and coached China’s national team, has been jailed for corruption. Photo: Reuters
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Yu, who played a major role in Beijing’s response to Donald Trump’s trade war, had previously led the diplomatic mission at the UN in Geneva.

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Chinese Football Association (CFA)

China jails 2 more former top football officials for bribery amid crackdown

Liu Yi was handed an 11-year sentence and fined 3.6 million yuan, while fellow CFA official Tan Hai was given 6.5 years and 200,000 yuan fine.

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China’s Communist Party

Another Hainan ‘tiger’ tangled in a Chinese corruption investigation

Haikou Communist Party boss Luo Zengbin is the 54th senior official to face a discipline investigation this year.

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Luo Zengbin is the fourth prominent official to be brought down this year in a series of crackdowns that have shaken the top levels of power in Hainan. Photo: Weibo
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China’s Communist Party

China’s senior PLA ideology official Miao Hua under corruption investigation

Miao is director of the Central Military Commission’s political work department, which oversees party ideology and personnel changes.

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Chinese Football Association (CFA)

Fifa rejects CFA life ban on South Korea’s Son, club boss calls China ‘unstable’

Son Jun-ho was detained in China for 10 months ‘on suspicion of accepting bribes’ and was one of 43 people banned.

Global life ban imposed on South Korean soccer player Son Jun-ho, (right), by the Chinese Football Association has been rejected by Fifa. Photo: Reuters
China’s Communist Party

China investigates head of Shanghai’s free-trade zone for corruption

Zhu Zhisong, Communist Party chief of Pudong New Area, is among a number of aerospace veterans under a cloud.

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The party chief of Shanghai’s Pudong New Area, Zhu Zhisong, has been placed under investigation on suspicion of corruption. Photo: Weibo/侠客岛
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Stronger party control over the financial sector will allow the building of a more cohesive framework for further orderly decentralisation.

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China’s Communist Party

China confronts false accusations that plague anti-corruption crusade

Observers say unfounded claims about cadres waste resources, dampen morale and deter officials from making bold moves to boost the economy.

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A drone view of Dongguan, also known in some circles as “sin city”, where 42 sitting and former officials have faced corruption investigations so far this year. Photo: Xinhua
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First cryptocurrency corruption case in China is former central bank official

Yao Qian is accused of abusing his position at the China Securities Regulatory Commission in a ‘severe breach of duty’.

A former securities official who previously served as the People’s Bank of China’s first director of digital currency research has been accused of cryptocurrency-based corruption. Photo: Shutterstock
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China’s Communist Party

Chinese publisher who gave world The Three-Body Problem accused of corruption

Yao Haijun, deputy editor-in-chief of Science Fiction World, is accused of ‘severe violations of party discipline and the law’.

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Yao Haijun, 58, once described his introduction to the trilogy as like “the explosion of a hundred billion suns”. Photo: Weibo/ 动机资本
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Xi Jinping targets deterrence and discipline in PLA Rocket Force inspection

The president visits a brigade in Anhui province, urging them to adapt to new forms of warfare.

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China’s rocket force

PLA Rocket Force scientist loses political advisory post in corruption crackdown

CPPCC expels missile expert Xiao Longxu as anti-graft campaign continues to zero in on military officials.

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China’s Communist Party

Tang Yijun, China’s ex-justice chief, faces graft charges, expelled from party

Tang, who is accused of helping family members obtain business deals and taking bribes, will be indicted, anti-corruption agency says.

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Tang Yijun, former justice minister from the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi, will face indictment on charges of corruption and misconduct, China’s top anti-corruption agency said. Photo: Xinhua
China’s Communist Party

China throws the book: more corruption suspects hit with illicit reading claims

Growing number of disgraced officials being accused by anti-corruption agencies of reading forbidden books, cited as disloyalty to the party.

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Allegations of reading politically forbidden books have appeared in at least a dozen corruption case readouts this year in China. Photo: Shutterstock
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Why do so many Chinese officials fall for fake promises of political charlatans?

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Corruption in China

China’s anti-corruption watchdog on track to top 2023 ‘tigers’ record

Four officials held over past fortnight take total to highest for January to September, one short of the record 45 for the whole of 2023.

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China’s rocket force

China ICBM test a sign PLA Rocket Force stands ready despite corruption scandals

Analysts say ballistic missile launch may be aimed at proving ‘credibility’ and combat ability of PLA division swept up in anti-graft probe.

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The PLA Rocket Force launches an intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday in China’s first known ICBM test in 44 years. Photo: AFP / Chinese People’s Liberation Army News and Communication Centre
Chinese Football Association (CFA)

Player lifts lid on match-fixing in Chinese football: ‘there was no escaping it’

Player, who is in his mid-30s, lifts lid on corruption and says clubs in China second tier would deliberately lose on weekly basis.

A footballer has told the Post about how match-fixing worked in China during his time there. Photo: Shutterstock Images
China’s military

Deputy commander of China’s army among 5 stripped of lawmaker status in probe

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Chinese Football Association (CFA)

Striker Ewolo proclaims innocence in China match-fixing, says police cleared him

Donovan Ewolo was handed a five-year ban from Chinese football in relation to his time with China League One side Heilongjiang Ice City.

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