Xi’s 13-year corruption campaign just keeps accelerating

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on corruption is picking up pace even after more than a decade of investigations, according to a South China Morning Post deep dive. There were 65 probes into civilian officials of vice-ministerial grade or above last year versus just 19 in 2013, when Xi took office, the research shows. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), China’s top anti-corruption body, has also started 46 investigations so far this year, compared with 39 in the...

By Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma