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...despite a nationwide anti-graft campaign instigated by President Hu Jintao, many Chinese aren't convinced that the Party is really serious about uprooting corruption. As the Xinhua article itself noted, an online poll by the People's Daily website, which carried the story, found that nearly 80% of respondents either thought the forced prison tour was "just for show" or would be ineffective in preventing the officials from illegally profiting from their positions. That is a distressing prospect for Communist Party Cadres, who remain keenly aware that rampant corruption was one of the prime motivating factors behind the huge...
...series of high-level arrests in scandals involving hundreds of millions of dollars. Those detained have included the vice mayor of Beijing, the head of one of China's biggest property companies and senior government and private sector officials in Shanghai. Despite such well-publicized arrests, says Hu Xingdou, a professor of China studies at the Beijing Institute of Technology, there's little sign that the spread of corruption is being slowed by the government's actions. In Liuyang, for example, the fact that party officials are being forced to take desperate measures like the prison tour actually signals that...
...frustrating and sometimes fruitless exercise. China watchers remain divided about just how centrally coordinated such actions are. In the case of Chen Guangcheng, for example, it is unclear whether his sentence was solely decided by local officials or sanctioned - even tacitly - by Beijing. Some speculate that China's President Hu Jintao is putting on a show of strength to bolster his relatively weak grip on the reins of power; the crackdown is seen as clearing the decks of potentially embarrassing dissenters before Beijing hosts the Olympic Games in the summer of 2008. The Chinese authorities are particularly sensitive to media...
...bribery or improper loans are Zhu Junyi, the pension fund's supervisor and a member of China's parliament; Zhang Rongkun, one of the nation's richest men; and Qin Yu, former secretary to Chen Liangyu, Shanghai's top Party official. The growing scandal comes as China's President Hu Jintao has intensified his campaign against corruption, instructing government officials and their families to report any property transactions, business holdings and foreign travel to the Party...
...investigation may also signal a power play by Hu ahead of the Communist Party's annual confab in October. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, hailed from Shanghai and seeded the government with prot?g?s including Party boss Chen, who had been mentioned for possible promotion to Beijing. A hometown scandal could weaken the influence of the so-called "Shanghai gang," allowing Hu to install his own acolytes in positions of power. "The Chinese leadership understands that releasing the details of corruption in Shanghai just before the October meeting will have a big impact," says Joseph Cheng, a China expert at City University...