ARTICLE: Politics Permeates Anti-Corruption Drive in China, By DAVID BARBOZA, New York Times, September 3, 2009

This gets much closer to the truth in China:

But analysts say that prominent corruption cases in China are often the outgrowth of power struggles within the Communist Party, with competing factions using the "war on corruption" as a tool to eliminate or weaken rivals and their corporate supporters.

It is a pluralism of a sort--just a decidedly destructive one.