EDITOR—No one in China is above the law. Even China’s former Justice Minister Tang Yijun found he was not too privileged to be immune. In 2024, anti-corruption authorities announced he was “being investigated for suspected severe violations of the discipline and law”.
Another former justice minister, Fu Zhenghua, was jailed with a suspended death sentence for corruption in 2022.
The graft-busting campaign shows no special leniency to those who, with the most power and authority, are therefore most responsible to the people.
The anti-corruption policy has been pursued with the resolve to “offend a few thousand rather than fail 1.4 billion”.
