President Xi Jinping’s grinding campaign against graft and disloyalty in the Chinese government claimed another powerful victim over the weekend, when the Communist Party’s disciplinary agency announcedthat the mayor of Tianjin, a northern port city, was under investigation. As usual for such announcements, the agency, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, did not describe specific charges against the mayor, Huang Xingguo, who had also been serving as the acting party secretary of Tianjin, which is about 70 miles south of Beijing. Read more
