The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is gearing up for its most important political event of the decade. Sometime in the second half of 2022, China’s most senior leaders will assemble at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People for the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Maneuvering ahead of the event will dominate political life in China throughout 2022, and the outcomes of the congress will determine the country’s trajectory for years to come.
Roughly every decade, China’s political system cracks, its veil is rent, and its inner workings are laid bare. 2012, the Year of the Dragon, is turning out to be one of those periods when the country’s high priests can’t quite carry out their rituals as planned.The disruption to China’s well-ordered political world was set off by the upcoming 18th Party Congress, when the
CHINA / POLITICS By Global Times Published: Feb 28, 2021 06:41 PM
Workers from the Commission for Discipline Work of Hohhot Economic and Technological Development Zone (HETDZ) study the case related to Li Jianping. Photo: Li Yinjie.
A high-profile anti-corruption case, seen as the biggest corruption case in North China s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region related to a former secretary of the Party working committee of an economic development zone in Hohhot revealed on Saturday, left many netizens appalled at the massive amount of illicit money involved - more than 3 billion yuan ($463 million) - and the corrupt way the official acted to undermine the rule of law and betray the Party and people s trust.