Another view on Chinese anti-corruption campaign
A Chinese government official I know was put under shuanggui, the
secretive system of internal Communist Party investigation in which victims are
detained, questioned without counsel and sometimes tortured.
He was held for several months last year, and he now awaits trial. This
midlevel apparatchik in Yunnan Province was responsible for city planning and
construction. I don’t know why they targeted him — shuanggui is so opaque. Friends
think he was an able official who may have taken a few bribes. But the most
probable reason for his travails with the authorities was that his political
patron also got in trouble…
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