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China’s Anti-Corruption Czar, Accused of Corruption, to Step Down
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | October 25, 2017 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 10/25/2017 5:53:11 AM PDT by RohanKapoor

China's anti-corruption czar who is also the Communist Party official in charge of all financial policies will step down this week from his position on the powerful Standing Committee of the Politburo.

The official, Wang Qishan, for the past five years directed a vast anti-corruption campaign that struck fear into political and military leaders and ensnared scores of senior officials and thousands of lower-level Party cadres linked to corruption that observers says is an endemic feature of the current system.

The ouster of large numbers of Party officials also is widely viewed as a subterfuge for the consolidation of power by current supreme leader Xi Jinping—whose personal ideology was elevated to the status of a guiding Party "thought" this week during the major Communist Party congress in Beijing.

Ironically, Wang was exposed earlier this year as engaging in illicit financial practices by exiled dissident Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, who regards the expected retirement of Wang as a victory for his campaign as a whistleblower of high-level Chinese corruption.

"The downfall of Wang Qishan is definitely a victory for a grassroots campaign led by many Chinese anti-kleptocracy activists, including myself, which is unprecedented in the recent history of China," Guo told the Washington Free Beacon.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: china; corruption; wangqishan

1 posted on 10/25/2017 5:53:11 AM PDT by RohanKapoor
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To: RohanKapoor

Luckily, we have no such issues in the US. Ours won’t step down.


2 posted on 10/25/2017 5:54:28 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: RohanKapoor

Every Ethics officer has his price...


3 posted on 10/25/2017 5:59:44 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: RohanKapoor

I read the book Out Of Mao’s Shadow a few years ago. China’s entire system is corrupt from top to bottom. One of the residual effects of beloved communism.


4 posted on 10/25/2017 6:02:23 AM PDT by lurk
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To: RohanKapoor

Xi Jinping is grasping at increased power unlike any Chinese party boss over the last 30 years.

“corruption” may simply be a slogan used to attack any political opponent.


5 posted on 10/25/2017 6:04:17 AM PDT by PGR88
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“corruption” may simply be a slogan used to attack any political opponent.

Taken from Stalin's playbook.

6 posted on 10/25/2017 6:09:23 AM PDT by ex91B10
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To: RohanKapoor

Oooh. So I am supposed to be the ANTI-corruption czar. That's different.

7 posted on 10/25/2017 6:11:53 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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8 posted on 10/25/2017 6:18:28 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: RohanKapoor
Is this the guy Bannon met with last week? I think it is.

Interesting.

9 posted on 10/25/2017 6:26:08 AM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: BlueLancer

George should have been a politician.


10 posted on 10/25/2017 6:26:38 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: RohanKapoor

In the past, China has dealt with corrupt officials in a slightly more final way than just allowing them to “step down.”


11 posted on 10/25/2017 6:39:23 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: RohanKapoor

Speaking of corrupt czars, has Trump cleaned the swamp of soetoro’s czars?


12 posted on 10/25/2017 8:14:33 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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