After the downfall of former Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan, more inside stories have been exposed one after another. Some sources claim that the case involves the daughter of Xi Jinping’s confidant Li Zhanshu; others speculate that the case may implicate the current Politburo Standing Committee member Ding Xuexiang. There are also reports indicating that the reason Huang Qifan was arrested is because his economic views clashed with Xi Jinping’s economic ideology, greatly displeasing Xi.
Recently, the Chinese Communist Party’s State Secrecy Bureau revealed an internal espionage case where around 300,000 internal documents were stolen. Interestingly, this case was discovered because of an accidentally dropped recording pen.
In addition, a Chinese female doctoral student in the United States is suspected of poisoning a colleague and plagiarizing their research data. After being questioned by the police, the student attempted to flee back to China with multiple laptops but was arrested at the airport by law enforcement.
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