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China’s big bust shocks the nation
After months of rumors that such a move was coming, China’s top leadership body said Tuesday night that it had launched an investigation into one of its own former members, the highest-level official to face such a probe in a generation. The object of possible criminal charges is 71-year-old Zhou Yongkang, the nation’s former security chief and an ex-member of the Politburo Standing Committee, which runs China’s ruling Communist Party. A state-media report on the investigation didn’t specify what crimes Zhou may have committed, saying only that he was accused of “serious violations of Party discipline,” ... (full story)