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China

Anti-corruption Initiatives

• In China, First the Purge, Then the Economic Rebirth (Wall Street Journal)

China’s main axis of power: anticorruption chief Wang Qishan, left,
 with President Xi Jinping in September in Beijing.

"This political duo is the main axis of power in China today: Mr. Wang Qishan tears down; Mr. Xi Jinping rebuilds from the ground up. The future of the world’s second-largest economy depends in large part on the success of their collaboration. Premier Li Keqiang ... holds the post traditionally in charge of the economy. 

It’s still early days, but the advances of Messrs. Xi and Wang are significant."

• China Arrests Ex-Chief of Domestic Security in Graft Case (New York Times)

"The move indicated that top officials were not immune from punishment under President Xi Jinping. 

The announcement signaled the biggest move yet in Mr. Xi’s two-year campaign to curb graft and malfeasance in the party hierarchy.“Corruption is a cancer that has invaded the party’s healthy tissue,” an editorial in People’s Daily, the party’s main newspaper, said Saturday."

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• China Set to Host Regional Anticorruption Network (Wall Street Journal)

"APEC Members to Lay Out Plan for Corruption Information Sharing

China is increasingly extending its domestic antigraft campaign internationally to, as one policy maker put it, “cut off the escape route of corrupt fugitives.” 

Now, the 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which began Wednesday in Beijing, are set to affirm a plan for information-sharing on corruption, those people said. 

The network, called Act-NetAct-Net—short for APEC Network of Anti-Corruption Authorities and Law-Enforcement Agencies  

Act-Net is a key facet of an agreement—the Beijing Declaration on Fighting Corruption—awaiting signatures at the APEC summit, to be attended next week by Mr. Xi, President Barack Obama , Russian President Vladimir Putin , among others.  

An eight-point draft declaration circulating in mid-October and seen by The Wall Street Journal cites Act-Net and a shared “commitment to denying safe haven to those engaged in corruption, including through extradition, mutual legal assistance, and the recovery and return of proceeds of corruption.” 

Act-Net is designed to open cross-border information flows between law-enforcement agencies"

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• Warm West Coast Reception for China’s Web Czar Lu Wei [New York Times] 

 

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief, meeting with Lu Wei, China’s top Internet regulator, last week in a photo posted on the state-run China Network agency

 

"At least one thing caught the eye of China’s Internet czar Mr. Lu Wei during his trip to the United States last week: a book written by and about the president of China on the desk of Mark Zuckerberg.

Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, pointed to the book, “Xi Jinping: The Governance of China” last week while giving a tour of the company’s office to Lu Wei, the de facto head of Internet policy in China.

Mr. Lu laughed when he saw the book, an anthology of speeches and comments by President Xi."