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China’s House Cleaning is Just Skin Deep

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Jun 13, 2007
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On the evening of June 4, investigators from the Central Disciplinary Inspection Committee of the Communist Party scheduled a two-hour meeting with a senior official in Tianjin to discuss allegations of corruption against him.

But that morning, a member of Song Pingshun’s staff had already found his boss on his bed, dead from an overdose of sleeping pill…

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