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To: TobagoJack who wrote (123847)12/23/2016 4:43:56 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 217699
 
Critics (of Xi's anti-graft) believe his efforts won’t deliver sustainable remedies for systemic corruption—such as increasing transparency and reducing the government’s role in the economy—and instead are aimed at cementing his own power.

Transparency is what I called the intelligentsia discussing openly what is going on inside the backrooms.

Xi has been emboldened by Brazil's Operation Car Wash and is trying to do something about graft. But graft is the symptoms. He cannot attack the causes

few expect him to impose changes that would restrain the country’s ultimate authority: the Communist Party.


Stricter asset-disclosure rules for party members could be in the cards, though such a proposal likely faces internal resistance, other academics say
This is why the Nomeklatura dislikes academics.

China’s Anti-Graft Campaign in Review
By: Willy Wo-Lap LamDecember 7, 2015 03:21 PM Age: 1 year
Given President Xi's well-known antipathy towards Western political norms and institutions (which TJ loves and applauds), however, China's anti-graft improvement will likely remain constrained by Communist-party exigencies such as the dictates of the faction in power.
- See more at: jamestown.org

Dr. Willy Wo-Lap Lam is a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Center for China Studies, the History Department and the Program of Master’s in Global Political Economy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of five books on China, including “Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?” - See more at: jamestown.org
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