Gao, Xiaofeng: More about Chinese corruption
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Date: 3/26/2009 9:27:47 AM
Sender: Gao, Xiaofeng
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Gao, Xiaofeng: More about Chinese corruption
Corruption has become a toughest problem for Chinese government, and it is getting worse and worse. Over the last twenty years, from Chen, Xitong to Cheng, Kejie, corruptions among high class officials happen and been supervised continuously, which don’t prevent from latecomers to corrupt; and it is reported that the money Chinese officials embezzled has exceeded educational outlay.
In my opinion, there are two reasons for the deteriorating corruption: one is government still intervene with economic affairs after many years of Chinese economic reform while lacking executive power and political wish for political reform; the second one is most intellectuals work for government, CCP system automatically generate corruption and been widely spread. Just like the poisonous Chinese products, it is not because China has no ability to control the quality but lack of law. Since political reform is a must to solve corruption, but CCP worries about it will destroy its position by reforming, and reject political reform to prevent from losing power.
In other countries, corruption is secondary, but the main phenomenon in China. The occurrence of corruption represents current Chinese essential characteristics, and the root for this characteristic is one-party dictatorship, the unequal of political right, and the existence of a corrupt bureaucrat interest group. Corruption has become a special phenomenon in Chinese political life, one is 99% common people, and the other is 1%-5% privileged bureaucrat group who monopolizes all sources.
At bottom, corruption is a democratic problem. If people can fully exercise right of recall and impeachment, can those officials behave willingly? It is obvious that Chinese people’s democratic rights are too little not too much! To say unpleasantly, the so-called democracy with Chinese characteristics is just like a netizen sarcastically: Democracy, democracy, I am finally the man in charge.
Gao, Xiaofeng
3/26/2009
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