A failure of Communist culture has led to slack Party leadership at China Ocean Shipping Co (Cosco) and violations of the law, according to a secret speech given by a Party discipline officer to Cosco officials.

No individual targets are singled out for accusations of wrongdoing in the speech by Xu Aisheng of China’s powerful Central Commission on Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the body in charge of running president Xi Jinping’s massive anti-corruption campaign.

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