The main symbol on the homepage of China’s anticorruption agency shows the unadorned, old-school, gold hammer and sickle of the Communist Party, to which it belongs entirely. But that simplicity belies a harried new reality these days — the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection is in a flurry of activity as it carries out instructions from the president, Xi Jinping, to pull down “tigers” as well as “flies,” or high-level corrupt officials as well as low-level ones, according to people who have worked with it or are familiar with its doings.
Nearly every day brings news on the commission’s growing website of new detentions, as the country’s biggest antigraft campaign in decades deepens.
Yet while the corruption it is facing is very widespread and severe, “some of the cases are difficult to deal with firmly,” Huang Shuxian, the minister of Supervision and deputy party secretary of the commission, said in an article published in many Chinese media outlets on Thursday. His comments pointed to frustrations in the commission at its structure and staff levels, and difficulties in catching powerful targets who may be shielded by their political connections.
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