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Out of the Shadows 　　Since assuming power， China’s new leadership has made fighting allpervasive corruption within the Party the administration’s primary focus， openly acknowledging that the problem is so severe it threatens the Party itself. 　　Promising to “place power in the cage of regulation” in early 2013， the leadership released various decrees to curb the extravagant government spending， but has also launched crackdowns on both “tigers and flies” ? namely， both minor and top-level cadres. 　　A total of 19 ministerial-level senior officials have either been punished or have fallen unde