You may have noticed that China is accused of having corrupt officials whenever one of them is prosecuted. Meanwhile, our own officials – including 100% of our elected officials who accept 'campaign contributions' – are presumed to be honest. Some day it would be amusing to support the proposition that China has the most honest national officials of any large country on earth. And, furthermore, that it is their honesty that accounts for China's extraordinary progress, popular support, and trust.
Over 660,000 Officials Punished
BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Anti-corruption bodies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) have punished more than 660,000 officials guilty of disciplinary violations in the past five years, senior leader He Guoqiang announced on Monday.
More than 24,000 officials were transferred to the judicial system for suspected crimes, said He, head of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Procuratorial and discipline inspection authorities across the country investigated more than 640,000 corruption cases from November 2007 to June this year. More than 630,000 of the cases have been resolved, according to He.
A series of major cases, including those involving former Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai, former Railways Minister Liu Zhijun and former Shenzhen mayor Xu Zongheng, were relentlessly pursued, said He.
Investigating corruption cases is a long-term task in the process of building a clean government, said the head of the commission.
He urged institutions to put the "handling of disciplinary violation cases" at the top of the agenda and to always crackdown on corruption.
The corrupt ones, no matter who are involved, will be relentlessly followed and will never be given a chance of escaping punishment in accordance with Party discipline and the law, He said.
The head of the commission noted that improvements have been made in the way various departments cooperate to prevent corrupt officials fleeing to foreign countries and to strengthen overseas arrest.
He also urged anti-corruption authorities to learn and grasp the effective measures in the past five years to promote the combat against corruption and to build a clean party and government.
I don't think many would argue that Chinese government officials are necessarily more corrupt than officials in your home country (assume you mean the US?). The major difference is that the corruption appears to be systemic in China and that there is little incentive to truly address the underlying causes since the officials essentially police themselves (wolf guarding the chicken coop?). Combined with the complete lack of transparency when it comes to public officials in China and the seemingly random enforcement of laws (used more as a political tool rather than justice), that would be the cause for why corruption is seen as so endemic in China.
ReplyDeleteAnd no, I doubt that the politicians (who, in the US, are actually elected via popular vote, again unlike in China) in your home country are any less corrupt than the ones in China, but there is recourse to remove them or pressure them to serve their constituents rather than themselves and their cronies.
You entirely miss the point. China's corruption is the top-down control of socialism:
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It has nothing to do with the integrity of a human being. It is systemic and endogenous to its cultural, political, social, economic structure.
Again you socialists are going to fail horrendously. Of course you will boast in the meantime. It is always the same pattern repeated.