What will Chinaโs fifth plenum mean for the root-and-branch corruption drive?
Plenary sessions of the Central Committee, the upper echelon of Chinaโs ruling Communist Party, are major events on the countryโs political calendar. In the second part of this series, William Zheng and Alcott Wei examine how the fight against corruption is shaping the partyโs future. When Chinaโs political elites gather for a key conclave in Beijing later this month, the increasingly empty auditorium will speak loudly to the eventโs theme โ the ruling Communist Partyโs strict self-discipline...