Observers: China Anti-corruption Drive Targets Factions to Avoid Political Upheaval

Even though the Chinese government had announced that its anti-corruption campaign will continue indiscriminately in 2015 with a strategy of “shock and awe,” many observers still believe that cracking down on Communist Party factions will be key to the anti-corruption campaign this year. In early January, Chinese state media denounced the existence of factions within the party, a well-known fact, but one rarely discussed in public.  The Xinhua News Agency for the first time publicly...

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