As early as the start of President Xi Jinping’s second term in 2018, the Chinese leadership declared an “overwhelming victory” in its battle against corruption.
In the first five years of the campaign, some of the biggest names in the ruling Communist Party’s elite body, the Politburo, had been brought down, including Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the highest echelon in China’s political hierarchy.
