Xi Jinping Tightens Grip on Domestic Security Forces in First Broad Purge…

China’s Xi Jinping Tightens Grip on Domestic Security Forces in First Broad Purge

A senior ally of Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for a Mao-style purge of China’s domestic-security apparatus last month, saying it was time to “turn the blade inwards and scrape the poison off the bone.”

The cleansing commenced swiftly.

Within the first week after the call to action, Communist Party enforcers had launched investigations…

Full story: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-xi-jinping-tightens-grip

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