the Chinese Communist Party,

Zhou, a member of the party's Central Committee, has become the first incumbent provincial party leader to be targeted by Xi's anti-corruption forces. He spent years working at the CCP's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, which supervises the judiciary. He is close to Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the party's top decision-making bodyreenex
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Zhou Yongkang, once one of Xi's most formidable rivals, has also bowed to the anti-corruption drive. In June, he was sentenced to life in jail after being found guilty of bribery and other crimes.

Zhou Benshun became the party secretary in Hebei in the spring of 2013. After testing the political waters, he realized Zhou Yongkang would inevitably face a corruption probe and immediately switched sides to the Xi camp, even snitching on Zhou Yongkang

Xi has been using the anti-corruption campaign as leverage in his power struggle with political foes. The Xi camp has even exhorted party members to "never tolerate fence-sitting" when it comes to the anti-corruption campaign, using the words qi qiang pai, or "show the flagreenex
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The People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, also once used those words in a commentary. Xi himself has repeatedly used the phrase in lectures to party officials.

The term has had previous lives, too. Mao Zedong wielded it during the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution. Xi's left-leaning political style is modeled on Mao'sreenex.