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[i]President Hu Jintao (R) handed over the reigns to Xi Jinping, newly-elected head of the Communist Party[/i]
[url]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/11/2012111993218261840.html[/url]
[quote=AJE][B]China's new leader Xi Jinping has warned officials that they must fight corruption or risk ruining the country, strong words that come after a series of corruption investigations targeted high-level leaders in recent years.[/B]
Xi told the new 25-member Politburo that the party must be vigilant against graft, noting that corruption in other countries in recent years had prompted major social unrest and the collapse of governments, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday.
"The large number of facts tells us that if the problem of corruption becomes increasingly severe, it will lead to the ruin of the party and the country," Xi said.
In his remarks, Xi dwelled at length on the importance of the party's theoretical foundations in Marxism, Leninism and the ideas espoused by his predecessors, and said leaders had to be mindful of the practical realities of running the country and reconnecting with the population.
"In recent years, within our party there have been serious discipline violations, the nature of which has been very bad, with a terrible political impact, causing much alarm,'' said Xi, who took over as China's Communist Party leader last Thursday.
Xi's language was unusually direct for a top leader, indicating his seriousness about the problem, but his speech gave few indications of how the party could better police itself, said Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a political scientist at Hong Kong Baptist University.
[B]'Strong words'[/B]
"He used strong words. It was clearly a warning: `We have to do something about this'," Cabestan said.
"Clearly, for him, the crux of the matter is corruption."
The trouble is, of course, that he doesn't tell us much about what are going to be the efficient tools or weapons he will put together to fight corruption.''
Xi urged officials at all levels to obey anti-corruption regulations and to better limit their relatives or associates from abusing their influence for personal gain, but he gave no indication of any independent mechanism for investigating graft.
The party, which controls courts, police and prosecutors, has proved feeble in policing itself yet does not want to undermine its control by empowering an independent body to do so.
Some officials have been required to report income, real estate holdings and other wealth to their superiors since 2010, but the measure has done little to staunch the graft.
However, corruption investigations targeted high-level leaders in recent years, most notably former Politburo member Bo Xilai, who was purged this year after an aid disclosed that his wife murdered a British businessman.
Bo is accused of obstructing the investigation into the murder as well as unspecified corruption while in office.
Foreign media reports in recent weeks also have documented massive wealth accumulated by Chinese leaders' families.
[B]New leadership[/B]
Xi took over as China's top leader last Thursday when he assumed the posts of party leader and head of the military commission from outgoing leader Hu Jintao.
Hu will retain the title of president - the ceremonial head of state - until next spring when he hands that position over to Xi as well.
Xi and other party leaders have often reiterated that more needs to be done to root out deep-seated corruption in China that threatens the ruling Communist Party's legitimacy.
Xi also emphasized the need to narrow the gap between the party and the people in what seemed like an implicit critique of his predecessors, said Willy Lam, a political analyst at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Lam said Xi's frequent references to "the people'' in his speech indicated that "the past two decades have resulted somehow in the people feeling alienated from the party".
"Now what he's saying is that from day one is that we shall stick to the people. We will do what the people want,'' Lam said.[/quote]
What is it with Chinese politicians and them all dressing like agent 47. Every time I see them in the news, no matter what position they hold, it is the same goddamn suit.
EDIT: Oh god, look in the background. It is an entire room of people in the same suit.
[QUOTE=GunFox;38517063]What is it with Chinese politicians and them all dressing like agent 47. Every time I see them in the news, no matter what position they hold, it is the same goddamn suit.
EDIT: Oh god, look in the background. It is an entire room of people in the same suit.[/QUOTE]
Politicians tend to wear suits.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;38517078]Politicians tend to wear suits.[/QUOTE]
No doubt.
They do not, however, all wear black suits with white shirts and red ties. Many may prefer that style, but it is by no means universal.
But China has shown up a few times recently in the news and the attached photo always seems to be everyone wearing that exact setup.
Maybe it is just stock footage all from the same event.
EDIT:
On a side note, that would be the easiest mission in a Hitman game. No disguise necessary!
Wait ... So corruption RUINS things?
[QUOTE=Medevilae;38517113]Hell, Hillary Clinton is a veritable rainbow of suits
[IMG]http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/images/Hillary_Clinton-Pantsuit-Rainbow.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
What about that 50 shades of Merkel?
I think the message he's sending is that the party will decide who gets what. Corruption means that individual officials are making their own secret deals for profit and the party gets no benefit from it. Like all governments, the Chinese government wants to make sure they get a cut from any money being made.
It's going to be tough to enforce though, because that's a big country and lots of money is coming in constantly. That's a lot to keep track of.
[QUOTE=GunFox;38517111]On a side note, that would be the easiest mission in a Hitman game. No disguise necessary![/QUOTE]
wasn't that basically the ending to Codename 47?
Corruption has always been in China if one looks back into it's history. It's ruined them completely over and over again. I just hope they can get rid of the corruption, it's going to be tough though.
[QUOTE=GunFox;38517063]What is it with Chinese politicians and them all dressing like agent 47. Every time I see them in the news, no matter what position they hold, it is the same goddamn suit.
EDIT: Oh god, look in the background. It is an entire room of people in the same suit.[/QUOTE]
They also have the same haircuts.
[QUOTE=GunFox;38517063]What is it with Chinese politicians and them all dressing like agent 47. Every time I see them in the news, no matter what position they hold, it is the same goddamn suit.
EDIT: Oh god, look in the background. It is an entire room of people in the same suit.[/QUOTE]
they're coming to get you gunfox :)
There is a difference between what a politician says, and what a politician does. Broadcasts such as this only serve as a distraction.
[QUOTE=Fenrisulfr;38518155]There is a difference between what a politician says, and what a politician does. Broadcasts such as this only serve as a distraction.[/QUOTE]
Except they actually do arrest politicians in China for corruption, because when billions of dollars disappear it's affecting the growth of the nation and China doesn't want that.
[QUOTE]A 2007 report of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace by Minxin Pei called the level of Chinese corruption “astonishing,” noting that it cost $US86 billion a year, more than China’s annual education budget. Things have not gotten any better. [/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.swinburne.edu.au/chancellery/mediacentre/media-centre/news/2012/11/chinas-new-leaders-target-corruption[/url]
The corruption is so extreme it can fund NASA for 5 years.
Yeah China really goes balls out in terms of dealing with corruption. Unlike the US where you can get away with white collar crime by paying a minimal (in their perspective) fine/maybe a year of jail time, you get executed.
Didn't they execute some politician a few years ago in his own home for corruption.
Crazy shit.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;38518696]Didn't they execute some politician a few years ago in his own home for corruption.
Crazy shit.[/QUOTE]
fighting the corrupt with corruption, China style.
China is one of the most corrupt countries on earth.
[QUOTE=J!NX;38518757]fighting the corrupt with corruption, China style.[/QUOTE]
That isn't what corruption means.
It's just called being a cunt.
Corruption ruins anything :v:
[QUOTE=GunFox;38517111]No doubt.
They do not, however, all wear black suits with white shirts and red ties. Many may prefer that style, but it is by no means universal.
But China has shown up a few times recently in the news and the attached photo always seems to be everyone wearing that exact setup.
Maybe it is just stock footage all from the same event.
EDIT:
On a side note, that would be the easiest mission in a Hitman game. No disguise necessary![/QUOTE]
My guess - it's standard for the local politbureu. Makes sense that essentially send out standard uniforms.
Not to intentionally racially stereotype but there's something about the asian mindset that badly encourages corruption. Even Russia can't seem to get as bad as they do.
Jinping sounds like a fun sport.
[editline]20th November 2012[/editline]
Three Xi's on that Jinping, match ball!
[QUOTE=markfu;38518626]Yeah China really goes balls out in terms of dealing with corruption. Unlike the US where you can get away with white collar crime by paying a minimal (in their perspective) fine/maybe a year of jail time, you get executed.[/QUOTE]
I have read a lot about China and their culture, and the corruption has always been sort of way of life there, like how in russian government only what matters is ruthlesness and power. in China it is very common that the workers of major corporations bribe their bosses in order to get higher position, but they do it in a "respectful" manner. Like the big guy is having a birthday, you buy him a really fancy and expensive handwatch. Or buy similiarly fancy stuff for his family, take him and his family for a dinner etc. You know how the rest goes. It's acceptable to bribe your way to the top and everyone's okay with it, but when you get caught everyone abandons you and you are hated to death. It's really strange.
However the government [I]really[/I] don't fuck around when a company tries to bend them to their will. A oil company in China years ago tried this by wanting to rise oil prices, the government didn't have none of that. The company responded by suddenly shutting off all their refineries for "maintainance", which caused the prices of fuel go throught the roof on Northern parts of China, making people's life there really hard. This royally pissed of the communist party, so they fabricated evidence of corruption, blackmail and other scandalous things about the guy leading the company. He was soon arrested and sentenced for the rest of his live in prison, and the Chinese government put their own man in his place.
To this day that company has been selling oil on cheap prices.
[QUOTE=GunFox;38517111]No doubt.
They do not, however, all wear black suits with white shirts and red ties. Many may prefer that style, but it is by no means universal.
But China has shown up a few times recently in the news and the attached photo always seems to be everyone wearing that exact setup.
Maybe it is just stock footage all from the same event.
EDIT:
On a side note, that would be the easiest mission in a Hitman game. No disguise necessary![/QUOTE]Well the symbolism of the red tie is obvious; I guess they wear the same suit for uniformity's sake. I'd love to see Xi in a pinstripe suit with fedora just for the sake of it :v:
[QUOTE=Swebonny;38518196]Except they actually do arrest politicians in China for corruption, because when billions of dollars disappear it's affecting the growth of the nation and China doesn't want that.
[url]http://www.swinburne.edu.au/chancellery/mediacentre/media-centre/news/2012/11/chinas-new-leaders-target-corruption[/url]
The corruption is so extreme it can fund NASA for 5 years.[/QUOTE]
funding nasa? what? I don't understand what this "NASA funding" is
[QUOTE=Swebonny;38518196]Except they actually do arrest politicians in China for corruption, because when billions of dollars disappear it's affecting the growth of the nation and China doesn't want that. [/QUOTE]
Good for them, except that is not germane to my argument. Peddle the red herrings elsewhere.
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