Huang Qifan, China’s political tumbler, falls after a decade of close corruption calls

Throughout that time, including his seven years as the megacity’s mayor from 2009 to 2016, Huang was seen as a “tumbler” in Chinese politics – a weighted doll that wobbles but never falls over.

Bo and Sun were both members of the Politburo, the pinnacle of the party’s power, and their downfalls were two of the biggest political earthquakes the country has seen in recent decades. Yet Huang survived.