Xinhua announced that in the communique issued after its second plenary session on January 13, 2018, the Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) listed its priorities for this year. The top priority is to “resolutely get rid of disloyal, dishonest and Janus-faced people” and “purify the Party in an all-round way.” Xinhua explained that the so-called “Janus-faced” members are those who are “disloyal and dishonest to the Party, who comply in pubic but oppose in private.” In late November 2017, a People’s Liberation Army Daily commentary authored under the pseudonym of “Jun Zheng Ping,” which actually stands for “the commentary of Political Work Department”, described former PLA General and Political Commissar Zhang Yang, who hanged himself, as "Janus-faced". The communique additionally declared that the CDIC’s fight against corruption “will particularly target those officials who have shown no restraint and continued their wrongdoing” after the 18th CCP Congress held in late 2012. It said “We will continue to see that there are no no-go zones, no stone is left unturned, and no tolerance is shown for corruption. We will focus on those corrupt cases involving the interest groups that are engaged in both political issues and economic issues.” The CDIC also vowed to safeguard “Xi Jinping as the core of the CCP Central Committee and the whole Party” and “the authority of the Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership.”
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