Years of sweeping anti-corruption campaigns have failed to eliminate corruption within the Chinese Communist Party. Instead, investigations and purges have continued to reach ever deeper into the Party and military establishment, including officials once considered close to Xi Jinping.

In a purported prison letter disclosed by Australia-based legal scholar Yuan Hongbing, former senior Xi aide Zhong Shaojun offers a striking explanation for why. According to Zhong’s reported account, corruption among senior officials is no longer driven solely by greed or the desire for luxury. Increasingly, he claims, officials are accumulating money, moving assets, and building networks as protection against a future political crisis.

If his account is accurate, the change points to something more serious than ordinary corruption: a growing loss of confidence among those inside the system itself.

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