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Dave Kaminsky
Updated May 16, 2018
The government of China’s top body is the Politburo, although actually the
Politburo Standing Committee, a group of less than ten men control the
country.
Just in the Politburo alone, there have been multiple people who have been
arrested for corruption, who have apparently risen from the bottom of the
party, all the way to the pinnacle of power while being fantastically
corrupt the entire time. I’ll keep my answer to Politburo members, senior
miliary, and cases where Chinese people were killed over the last 10 years,
as otherwise the list of top corrupted officials would go for to long.
Zhou Yongkang was the head of all law enforcement in the Politburo Standing
Council, the man supposed to fight corruption. Instead he and his family
used his position to loot the treasury and the Chinese people. After he got
arrested, billions of dollars of assets were seized from him and his family.
This is a top-level law enforcement official; who knows what was going on
underneath him. Also, his son fled to the US, where I’m sure the US
intelligence services had some interesting discussions with him.
Beside law enforcement, we have the military. Xu Caihou was the top military
man in the Politburo, serving under the President. He turned the entire PLA
into a personal cash cow for years, running a pay to play scam for
promotion. For years PLA officers were promoted on how much they get bid for
their positions; that bribe money came from a system of bribes for
promotions throughout the military. The amount of damage this might have
caused in an actual war where officers chosen for bribery and not competence
is unknown. Other senior officers like Guo Boxiong went down for this case
as well.
Bo Xilai, the man who almost was almost emperor; he was the other candidate
in the 2012 presidential selection. His corruption and illegal behavior
resulted in the death of a British expat, an attempted defection to the
American embassy of an underling, a stand-off between local and national
police forces, and again a revelation of millions of dollars of bribes.
Just this year, Sun Zhengcai, hand-picked to replace Bo Xilai…who turned
out to be fantastically corrupt himself. Can’t catch a break I guess.
Something is dysfunctional with the promotion mechanism at a systematic
level if a corrupt official is convicted and immediately replaced with
another who starts taking millions in bribes.
From a “what happens to the Chinese people” point of view, after dozens of
Chinese people died on the new high speed rail system right after it first
opened, Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun got a death sentence for corruption
in the construction of the railroad. 2008 Chinese milk scandal was linked to
millions of bribes paid to Chinese regulators and resulted in government
official again being implicated in corruption. The 2015 Tianjin explosions
that killed over 170 people resulted in the revelation that the Chinese head
of the OSHA equivalent Yang Dongliang was taking millions of bribes. The
2015 Shenzhen landslide was linked to an illegal landfill that got approved
through bribery; result? 73 dead. Jilin Baoyuanfeng poultry plant fire,
corruption involved, 120 dead. You get the picture.
What about the big man? What about Xi? Well, Xi’s family has managed to
somehow amass a fortune. Must be really good at business. Of course they
store it in off-shore accounts in Panama, and strangely no records of paying
Chinese taxes. When this was revealed, well: China Plans A Single, Chilling
Response To The Panama Papers: censorship. It’s safe to say, the
government is corrupt from top to bottom. The bribes flow upward, from the
basic officials to their higher-ups. How much you kick-up to your superior
plays a part in determining promotions.
Of course if you want to go down the rabbit hole, perhaps some or most of
these cases are just cover for political backstabbing. This is of course
another form of corruption beyond the scope of this question. | m********k
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