Former Chinese Domestic Security Chief Faces Corruption Probe

For many months, Beijing has been investigating its former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang for alleged corruption. And in early December, Beijing’s Xinhua news agency announced that Zhou, 72, had been removed from the Chinese Communist Party by the Politburo and his corruption case turned over to the to the nation’s prosecutor’s office. News reports say Zhou, who was Minister of Public Security from 2002 to 2007 and retired from government in 2012, is accused of taking bribes,...

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