The first rectification campaign, launched by Mao Zedong in 1942, lasted three years, claimed 10,000 lives and excluded 10% of Communist Party members. Two years from a key political deadline, it is against the judiciary and political apparatus that Xi Jinping is launching his own purge, which aims to definitively put an end to any internal dispute with a view to ultimate consecration in 2022, the date of the next Congress party.
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In progress since July, this 2.0 rectification campaign will last two years. Its purpose is to " scrape the poison from the bone " and "to uproot the harmful members of the herd". "The legal and political teams must be absolutely loyal, pure and reliable ", in the words of Chen Yixin, loyal to Xi Jinping, and responsible for embodying this internal purge. It is with slogans with Maoist overtones that he attacks the very heart of the Chinese judicial apparatus, which must be at the total service of politics and therefore of the Party.
Xi Jinping, strengthened by his management of the Covid-19 pandemic and Donald Trump's incessant attacks on China, begins the purge from a position of strength (...)" Corruption within the political system
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