Mag denounces critics:

Xinhua said.

Chinese visiting their ancestors’ tombs in early spring often burn incense, fake money and paper models of houses, cars and other goods in the belief their ancestors will be able to enjoy them in the afterlife. Tomb Sweeping Day, the traditional festival for visiting graves, falls on Monday this year. (AP)

A top magazine of China’s ruling Communist Party lashed out at critics of its ongoing anti-corruption campaign, saying foreign media and individuals from home and abroad were intentionally trying to discredit the effort as a political “power struggle”.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has pursued a sweeping campaign to root out corruption since assuming power about three years ago, and has promised to strike hard at both senior and low-level officials, the “tigers” and “flies”.

Nonetheless, there has been persistent speculation that the graft crackdown is also about Xi taking down his rivals.

“Some foreign media and individuals take their own countries’ anti-corruption efforts as a just display of rule of law, but see our anti-corruption work as a ‘power struggle’ that entails shadowy business,” the influential bimonthly journal Qiushi said.

Domestically, there are also some people who “parrot” these words, an article in the magazine’s latest issue released this week said. (RTRS)