{
  "id": 3122040,
  "title": "How China’s anti-corruption fight became Xi Jinping’s most important policy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/how-chinas-anti-corruption-fight-became-xi-jinpings-most-important",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-24T22:00:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
    "slug": "reuters-business-via-scmp",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3365052/how-chinas-anti-corruption-fight-became-xi-jinpings-most-important-policy"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "President Xi Jinping's anti-graft campaign has become the most important policy in the Communist Party, according to the South China Morning Post's data project. The campaign, which started in the early years of Xi's first term, has seen a significant increase in the number of senior officials taken down, with three times as many officials punished in 2023 compared to 2013. The campaign has expanded to cover various sectors, including security, finance, and education, and has even reached the military. Xi has repeatedly emphasized that the campaign has no end point and that no official should believe in impunity, calling it the \"greatest threat\" to the party.",
  "summary": "The South China Morning Post has launched a major data project diving into President Xi Jinping’s signature anti-graft campaign. In the first part of a series accompanying the data project, Phoebe Zhang looks at how the campaign became one of the Communist Party’s most important policies. In the early years of President Xi Jinping’s first term, when graft fighters were taking down senior…",
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      {
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/china-meeting-signals-stronger-h2-policy-push",
        "published": "2026-08-24T21:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "How China’s anti-corruption fight became Xi Jinping’s most important policy",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/how-chinas-anti-corruption-fight-became-xi-jinpings-most-important-3124558",
        "published": "2026-08-24T22:00:07.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}