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“A widening Chinese anti-corruption inquiry has targeted Beijing’s party leaders, in a sign that President Hu Jintao intends to continue removing officials he considers insufficiently loyal.”
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Qin Zhongfei has been cleared of any wrongdoing, and received compensation, after being sending satirical poetry via SMS.
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October 27th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
“A widening Chinese anti-corruption inquiry has targeted Beijing’s party leaders, in a sign that President Hu Jintao intends to continue removing officials he considers insufficiently loyal.”
So first, when the Shanghai leaders got arrested for corruption, the Western press said that the ulterior motive behind the arrests was to eliminate this rival Jiang-Shanghai gang.
Now, the investigation has move to Beijing and again the Western press accuses the anti-corruption arrest as having ulterior motives to remove those not loyal to Hu.
My question then is, under what hypothetical circumstances will it be clear to us that the arrests have no ulterior motives? The Western press is beginning to make it sound like any arrest must have an ulterior political motive.