Core policy since the mid 2000s aiming to nip challenges to party authority in the bud. A carrot and stick approach applying buy-offs as well as extrajudicial coercion, its price-tag has exceeded the national defence budget. In the cartoon, 'detention' is slammed on would be lodgers of 'petitions' (formal complaints lodged by citizens). Associated with fallen public security chief Zhou Yongkang 周永康, the policy remains unmodified link