It's abundantly clear that there's a lot of corruption in China, often involving government officials or those with connections to the government, and much of i

It's abundantly clear that there's a lot of corruption in China, often involving government officials or those with connections to the government, and much of it really obvious. The Chinese government hasn't generally cracked down because they were feeling virtuous, but because their hand was forced (corruption was revealed independently), and they feared social discontent more than they feared upsetting the gravy train. It's certainly believable that they would sometimes use "corruption" as an excuse to persecute those they don't like for political and other reasons -- but they can't just ignore every case of true corruption, especially obvious ones, because they don't want to risk real public unrest.