BEIJING: China’s Communist Party on Saturday expelled and arrested its former security czar, Zhou Yongkang, accusing him of massive bribery, theft of government resources and sharing of state secrets.
Zhou is the most powerful former official to be purged in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft campaign, which started in 2013 and has ramped up this year. With a near-daily drumbeat of actions taken against corrupt officials, Xi is clearly trying to persuade China’s citizenry that its one-party government is capable of cleansing itself.
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