"Under Xi's "sweep away black" campaign, province-level officials acquired wide discretion to prosecute local crimes with state backing.
'That decentralization then creates the conditions for officials to use the campaign as a pretext for arresting individuals who may not have anything to do with thuggery,' says Yuen Yuen Ang, a political science professor at the University of Michigan who has written a book about corruption in China."
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