China's 'October surprise' presages a tectonic shift in party's power structure
Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer and editorial writer at Nikkei. He has spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He is the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize for international reporting.
TOKYO -- Smack in the middle of its National Day holidays, China unwrapped its own "October surprise."
It was not the news of U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife Melania testing positive for the novel coronavirus.
Instead, it was a one-line statement that appeared on the screens of hundreds of millions of Chinese smartphones on Oct. 2.
It said that Dong Hong, a former vice ministerial-level official of the central inspection team, was under investigation on suspicion of "serious disciplinary violations."
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