Xi in particular seems to be personally offended by small scale corruption like business lunches. Huge crackdown on it for probably a negative political benefit.

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insane_dreamer an hour ago | parent [-]

there have always been ongoing crackdown on small scale corruption ("flies"); it's taking down the big "tigers", who all just happened to be from other CCP factions, that made Xi stand out among his predecessors.

	▲	nixon_why69 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's gotten ridiculous in the last 2 years according to my hearsay, like it's actually hurting the restaurant industry.