The “big tiger’s” curtain call : a sign of lesser things to come?

• Main Author: Char, James
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93708; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38361
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The staging of China’s former security czar Zhou Yongkang’s secret trial last month suggests schisms in the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party. Crucially, it is a clear sign that further arrests of other ‘big tigers’ within the Party’s top leadership will be unlikely for the foreseeable f...