China's Top Graft Buster Urges 'Shock and Awe' for Offenders

China's top official battling deeply-ingrained corruption warned staff on Wednesday their jobs were on the line if they failed to root out abuses, telling them to “shock and awe” their targets.   President Xi Jinping, who took office in March, has called corruption a threat to the ruling Communist Party's survival and vowed to go after powerful “tigers” as well as lowly “flies”.   Speaking to officials ahead of a new round of probes in provinces and government departments, ...

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