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Death Threats and Dawn Raids: Welcome to China's Anti-Graft Drive

A Chinese policeman patrols Tiananmen Square as China's leaders arrive for the country's annual congress NPC, the National People's Congress, in Beijing 08 March 2004.

Photographer: Stephen Shaver/Bloomberg
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Frozen Chinese bank accounts. Top executives taken in for questioning. Reports of death threats and pre-dawn clashes between armed body guards and police in Beijing.

That’s the fallout from a corporate feud playing out in Chinese press and social media for the past two months.