The former vice chairman of China, Zeng Qinghong, has been arrested and is now in detention in the city of Tianjin, a source close to the Party’s anti-corruption watchdog has said.
Ever since Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying took office, Hong Kong people have suspected that he does whatever the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) orders him to do.
For a decade after formally stepping down from the throne of communist power, Jiang Zemin continued to wield influence and make his presence felt in Chinese politics. Now there are signs that the authority of this longtime éminence grise may finally be receding.
A chief lieutenant of Zhou Yongkang, the former security czar, has been put under detention and investigated as part of an internal Party disciplinary procedure.
Former Chinese Communist Party leader Hu Jintao recently traveled to Yancheng City in Jiangsu Province to personally deal with the case of two persecuted Falun Gong practitioners, according to a source.
A New York Times article detailing the alleged wealth of Premier Wen Jiabao has turned the planned peaceful transition of the new Chinese Communist Party leadership at the upcoming 18th Party Congress into open political war, according to a source familiar with discussions preparatory for the Congress.
The Chinese Communist Party finds threats to its existence whichever way its leaders turn. Xi, the presumed next head of the CCP, tried to withdraw from assuming leadership of the Party, but was convinced to stay on by Party elders, who feared the warring factions could not agree on anyone else but him.