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Mandarin · pinyin shuāng guī

shuanggui, an extralegal system within the CCP for detaining and interrogating cadres who fall from grace

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verb

(Mainland China, politics, of members of the Communist Party) to be subject to investigation at a designated time and place

noun

(Mainland China) shuanggui

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