Chen Liangyu when still in office
"He is going to be executed for corruption," said a former colleague I met yesterday for lunch when the issue of Shanghai's former party secretary Chen Liangyu came up. "Of course, they have enough proof he is corrupt himself, not only his family. I heard the first stories already eight years ago."
More than setting up yet another hapless bureaucracy to fight corruption, this upcoming court case is going to set the agenda of the fight against corruption. But whether the system will literally kill its own children? I'm sure he will get (and deserve) a heavy punishment, but I think the death penalty will be a step to far. What do you think?
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