China's corruption crackdown sifts out select targets A wide-ranging trial and execution of a top official stop short of bona fide cleanup ALL Edition

Few doubt that the Chinese leadership is serious about attacking corruption. As Tsao King Kwun, professor of government at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, puts it, "No political regime can tolerate that level of corruption, so they have to be serious." A case in point are the trials t...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inThe Christian Science monitor (1983)
Main Author Noah J. Smith, Special to The Christian Science Monitor
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston, Mass The Christian Science Publishing Society (d/b/a "The Christian Science Monitor"), trusteeship under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 18.09.2000
Subjects
Capital punishment
Cheng Kejie
China
Corruption in government
Official misconduct
Trials
China
BEIJING
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Few doubt that the Chinese leadership is serious about attacking corruption. As Tsao King Kwun, professor of government at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, puts it, "No political regime can tolerate that level of corruption, so they have to be serious." A case in point are the trials that began this past Wednesday. They will mete out punishment in what is widely said to be the biggest corruption scandal since the founding of the People's Republic. Being held secretly in several cities in coastal Fujian Province, the trials illustrate limitations of the anticorruption campaign. The Yuanhua Group, a conglomerate based in Xiamen, smuggled an estimated $9.5 billion worth of goods into the country with the help of political connections that are suspected to reach right up to Jia Qinglin, Politburo member and best man at President Jiang's wedding. Mr. Jia's wife was reportedly under investigation for being involved in the smuggling, but the couple seems to have escaped relatively unscathed. The mainland media, meanwhile, are prohibited from discussing the Xiamen case at all.
ISSN:0882-7729
2166-3262