Oooh. So I am supposed to be the ANTI-corruption czar. That's different.
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.
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Luckily, we have no such issues in the US. Ours won’t step down.
Every Ethics officer has his price...
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.
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.
Taken from Stalin's playbook.
Oooh. So I am supposed to be the ANTI-corruption czar. That's different.
Interesting.
George should have been a politician.
In the past, China has dealt with corrupt officials in a slightly more final way than just allowing them to “step down.”
Speaking of corrupt czars, has Trump cleaned the swamp of soetoro’s czars?
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