by Yuanyue Dang in SCMP, June 7, 2023
Beijing: China’s top anti-corruption watchdog has signalled there will be no let up in its campaign as it vowed to crack down on political conspiracies.
“We must resolutely prevent the wrong expectation of changing our direction or loosening our grip,” the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection wrote in an article for the party mouthpiece People’s Daily.

“We will maintain a strict tone, strict measures and strict atmosphere in the long term and carry out the party’s great self-revolution to the end.”
“Self-revolution” is a term regularly used by the party to refer to efforts to rid itself of misbehaving individuals.

In the piece, the CCDI also said it took pride in “keeping high pressure” on key sectors including finance, state-owned enterprises, universities, sports and agriculture.

The Tuesday article was among a series of similar pieces published by various top party and government bodies as part of a campaign by the party’s leadership to promote President Xi Jinping’s political ideology.
The campaign began in March after Xi secured a norm-breaking third presidential term and tightened his grip on the party last autumn by placing close associates in key leadership positions.

The commission also pledged to “ strengthen political supervision and promote the unity of thought, will and action of the entire party”.

It added that the anti-graft body will continue to fight against “political conspiracies” and “political cliques”, so that it can “eliminate political hazards that endanger the party’s unity”.

Despite no sign of any open challenge to Xi’s rule, Beijing has continued to target officials accused of disloyalty.

In September last year, the former deputy security minister Sun Lijun, who was accused of leading a “political clique”, was jailed for life on corruption charges.

Five senior police officials linked to the case have also been jailed in a purge targeting members of the security establishment.
Xi also pledged to keep his anti-corruption drive going at the party congress last October. “As long as the breeding grounds and conditions for corruption still exist, we must keep sounding the bugle and never rest, not even for a minute, in our fight against corruption,” he said.
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