Commentary
State-run China Daily reported on June 20 that “the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee has issued a regulation on the business activities of relatives of officials.”
While not fully explained, this appears to be the latest measure targeted at Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bureaucrats and apparatchiks in Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s decade-long anti-corruption campaign.
Is this announcement genuine or misdirection? Let us examine the topic in detail.
Anti-Corruption Campaigns
Anti-corruption campaigns are “a feature, not a bug” in communist regimes. Communist leaders frequently employ anti-corruption actions to divert domestic attention away from problems that are unsolvable—and exacerbated—by their socialist economic system….