From The Washington Post:<\/p>\n
The Chinese government last week announced the disgrace of another senior Communist Party official accused of corruption. Du Shicheng<\/a>, it said, was stripped of his posts as deputy party secretary of Shandong<\/a> province and party secretary of Qingdao<\/a> city because of a “serious discipline violation.”<\/p>\n
Du’s firing — the fourth of a major party figure this year<\/a> — was another chapter in President Hu Jintao’s crackdown on the bribery and embezzlement that have become a big part of China’s economic expansion. But it also illustrated the limits of Hu’s anti-corruption drive. Despite repeated vows to weed out corrupt officials, the government’s campaign remains a self-cleansing operation by the Communist Party’s own bureaucracy, without monitoring by an independent judicial system or a free press.[Full Text]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"