Investigation
Corruption, Cadre Dependency, and Political Purge
Tracing anti-corruption through asset information, appointment exchange, inspection, case selection, and post-purge replacement.
Articles
9- From Anti-Corruption to Purge: Governance and Power ReorderingPlacing real corruption enforcement, case selection, personnel replacement, and loyalty reordering in one evidence chain.
- Why Cadre Asset Reporting Remains a Closed Supervisory SystemHow personal-matters reporting creates internal visibility without public asset disclosure.
- Buying Office, Promotion Exchange, and Cadre DependencyHow appointment authority, informal exchange, and later discipline can convert corrupt ties into political dependency.
- CCDI and National Commission of Supervision: From Party Discipline to State SupervisionMandates, investigative sequence, transfer to prosecutors, and external oversight gaps in the merged discipline-supervision system.
- How Party Inspection Becomes a Political Information SystemHow inspection authorization, interviews, lead transfers, and rectification reviews centralize political information.
- How Selective Anti-Corruption Reduces Risk for the Political CenterHow case selection can combine governance, deterrence, and political reordering when corruption is widespread and enforcement is finite.
- After the Purge: How Cadre Networks Are Re-EmbeddedReplacement, selective transfers, secretarial-network removal, and the formation of new loyalty ties after a purge.
- Military Procurement Corruption and the Dual Chain of Political PurgeHow procurement, promotion, military discipline, and readiness rectification become connected in anti-corruption campaigns.
- Local Official-Business Coalitions: Land, Finance, and Projects as a Closed LoopResource exchange among local Party-state leaders, state firms, financing vehicles, banks, and developers.
Cases
4- The Bo Xilai Case: Corruption Judgment and Elite ReorderingSeparating the judgment, discipline process, Chongqing network, and political consequences.
- The Zhou Yongkang Case: Security Power, Petroleum Interests, and NetworksHow a top-security case affected political-legal, local, and state-enterprise networks.
- The Sun Zhengcai Case: Succession Expectations, Sudden Removal, and Loyalty ReorderingElite risk control through personnel action, discipline characterization, and later conviction.
- The Lai Xiaomin Case: Financial-SOE Power, Conviction Facts, and Political InterpretationAn evidence-status reconstruction of The Lai Xiaomin Case: Financial-SOE Power, Conviction Facts, and Political Interpretation.
Event records
4- Bo Xilai CaseFrom political fall and discipline investigation to public trial.
- Zhou Yongkang CaseInvestigation, Party expulsion, and life sentence of a former top security official.
- Sun Zhengcai CaseThe sudden removal, investigation, and conviction of a Politburo member.
- Lai Xiaomin CaseA major bribery case involving the head of a state-owned financial institution.