Xi’s Demands for Loyalty Are Breeding Corruption

Get audio access with any FP subscription. Ma Xingrui’s rise inside the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took 38 years. His fall took about six months. After he disappeared from public view last November, an investigation into Ma was formally announced on April 3, and three months later he was dismissed from the party with a long list of charges. For a high-flying Politburo member whose career spanned the defense and aerospace establishment, Guangdong, and Xinjiang, the case was handled with remarkable speed.