A string of Chinese sex scandals erupted around the time of the country's leadership handover last year. Compromising photos of Wu Hong, a local police official in Chongqing, and a woman in some state of undress surfaced soon after.
And there was the video of Du Zeyong, former union director in Liaocheng who was expelled from the Communist Party in January after tapes emerged of him with his mistresses, the most infamous being the one in which he wearing a red thong.
But then there was a lull. It was believed policymakers had allowed videos to leak out of Chongqing to get rid of supporters of former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai. Wang immediately cracked down on the developer and the girls, confiscating the videos. But with the fall of Wang after the Bo Xilai scandal, these videos were leaked to Zhu from the office of the police department in Chongqing.
The most prominent one involves Liu Zhijun, the former Railways Minister, who was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for bribery and abuse of power. This means he is unlikely be executed. Amid his corruption charges were reports that he also accepted bribes in the form of sexual acts.
Then, there was the report from China's state-owned Xinhua about businessmen throwing parties for high-ranking officials partaking in breast milk orgies. And of course, there is Xu Qiayo of Jiangsu who boasted about having over mistresses , including a mother-daughter duo. So now, potentially, the propaganda folks are saying fine, we're going to let you be humiliated again," Bill Bishop, China expert and author of the excellent Sinocism newsletter told Business Insider.
