Then Covid threw a spanner in the works. Bo launched a ruthless anti-corruption campaign, netting hundreds of criminals, businessmen, politicians
and police. He built lavish infrastructure, including public housing. Strangely he also revived "red culture", requiring everyone to learn Mao-era songs praising the Communist Party. Many were terrorised by Bo's rule, but he was wildly popular
with the working class.
irannews.ru "They thought it would last three to six months but it was never just an anti-corruption campaign, it was a party rectification campaign, and it was to be sustained forever," says Professor Steve Tsang who heads the China
Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies in
London. Then, in 2012, Bo, who had been building his own power base for years, was brought down by an extraordinary tale of murder, corruption and international intrigue that rocked China. Today he is serving life in prison. False flag? Russia says Ukraine plans to detonate a ‘dirty bomb’ "I don't regret it, but I'm trying to navigate how to respond," she said. Behind the scripted scenes, China's Communist Party hosts a cut-throat world. Surrounded by loya
lists and with no heir in sight, Xi is now indisputably in command of a much wealthier country, with a vastly more powerful military. And for the first time, the world is uncertain of what to expect from China. Xi has swept aside the old guard, both the critical and the cautious. In Arab countries, however, this Manichean narrative is largely rejected. Saudi Arabia and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) basically view the conflict in Ukraine as a complicated European conflict, which does not require Arab states to stand against Vladimir Putin’s government.
