Xi is shaking up China’s political institutions all the way down to the basic building blocks of Party rule.

Xi may be safe, but his efforts to shake things up and instill order in the Party are cause for plenty of concern.

These disappearances mark an emerging new trend in President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive: more attention on China’s private sector.

Chinese businessmen, journalists, and politicians not confident that they’re in Xi’s good graces are living in at least vague fear of Party expulsion or arrest.

The corruption campaign is a tool for quashing dissent and consolidating power.

It’s a notable escalation in the purge.