Despite being one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most powerful men, Qiao Shi was something of a moderate, even liberal personality on the Chinese political scene.
A well-known Chinese celebrity television host, Rui Chenggang, was taken away for investigation by the Party’s anti-corruption watchdog moments before he was to appear on television.
Leaders of the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption watchdog can sometimes be in danger of violent reprisal from those they investigate, according to notes in a Hong Kong political magazine.