How to get kicked out of China’s Communist Party
Officials are trying to expel slackers and the superstitious
China’s Communist Party has over 99m members. So it is no surprise that some are not up to scratch. The corrupt, criminal or disloyal are handled by the party’s fearsome internal-investigation arm, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. It has punished thousands of officials in recent years. But that still leaves another kind of troublesome member: those who have not broken any laws, but just aren’t very good communists.
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This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Not for slackers”
From the September 7th 2024 edition
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