By Simon DenyerChina's President Xi Jinping has won a key victory in his battle to consolidate power and clean up the Communist Party from within. Xi is also head of the party and the military, and has worked constantly to consolidate power since taking office in 2013. They can see very clearly there are far more corrupt officials at large who have not been caught." "During the first year of the anti-corruption campaign, Xi Jinping was very popular," said Willy Wo-Lap Lam, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. But China Policy's Ye Fei said Chinese officials have been addicted to corruption for centuries, and much more powerful emperors than Xi have tried and failed to eradicate it.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 28, 2016 16:17 UTC