Chinese leader Xi Jinping has directed relentless purges to assert a degree of autocratic control unseen in China in decades, with Communist Party enforcers punishing nearly a million people last year. But when it comes to getting things done, he still wants more commitment to his agenda.
Weeks before Beijing is set to launch a new economic blueprint for the next five years, Xi ordered the party’s discipline inspectors to flex their supervisory powers even more forcefully and ensure his policies are executed as intended.
“Corruption is a major obstacle and a stumbling block in the advancement of the party and the nation’s causes,” Xi said this week at a conclave of the party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. This year, he said, party inspectors must help enforce the top leadership’s decisions more resolutely, and ensure Beijing achieves its goals in the new five-year plan.
Pretty sure Carney will be dropping a dime on all of us.
Carney and Xi ink MOU on “Cooperation in Combating Crimes Between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China.” Wanna bet Ottawa will honor this MOU, unlike the BS one it inked with Alberta?https://t.co/4S2BGrsxHO
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