Reflective Learning Journal

Swatting Tigers and Flies: is political corruption a natural by- product of one-party rule?

11/28/2018 1 Event Name and Venue

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 2

“A handful of senior party officials,

overcome by their political cravings

and lust for power, have resorted to

political conspiracies by working with

ostensible obedience, while forming

cliques to pursue selfish interests,” Xi

wrote in a People’s Daily commentary

2016

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 3

Li Huanan Deputy Party

Secretary Shenzhen

Tried to move US144

million dollars to Hong

Kong

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 4

General Xu Caihou

Until 2013 Vice-Chair of Central Military

Commission

In October 2014, Xu confessed to taking

bribes, becoming the highest-profile figure in

China's military to be charged with

corruption.

Xu took advantage of his position to assist

the promotion of other people, accepting

huge bribes personally and through his

family.

Died in March

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 5

Lt Gen Gu Junshan

Deputy director of the People's

Liberation Army (PLA) General

Logistics Department until January

2012

Gu stands accused of selling

hundreds of military positions.

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 6

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 7

Among the items

confiscated was a “pure

gold” statue of Chairman

Mao and hundreds of

boxes of Maotai, a high-

end Chinese liquor

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 8

Ling Jihua Chief of the General Office of the Communist Party of China between 2007 and 2012, Ling was

charged with corruption and sentenced to life imprisonment

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 9

Guo Boxiong former vice-chair of Central Military Commission

On July 25, 2016, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for bribery.

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 10

Zhang Yun, president, vice-chairman, and deputy

Communist party secretary of Agricultural Bank of

China had been “taken away to assist an

investigation”

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 11

Si Xinmin, chairman of China Southern Airlines

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 12

Zhu Fushou, President of Dongfeng Motors

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 13

Wei Pengyuan

Formerly deputy chief of the coal

bureau under the National Energy

Administration

Investigators found 200million yuan

in his home

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 14

If all that money was in 100-

yuan notes, China's largest

cash denomination, it would

pile 200 meters (656 feet) high

— more than two-thirds the

height of the Eiffel Tower, and

weigh more than 2 tons

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 15

Shanxi Corruption Investigation

A number of very senior officials have been caught up in a

investigation into abuse of power

Coal rich province

Some with ties to Zhou

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 16

Liu Zhijun

In July 2013 former minister of railways Liu Zhijun to death, with a two-year reprieve, for bribery and

abuse of power.

Accused of embezeling approx. 60 million yuan.

Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of

China's rail system

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 17

Wenzhou Rail crash

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 18

Liu Tienan

Director of the National Energy

Administration between 2011 and 2013

Lost his job in May 2013 after a former

mistress told a journalist that he had

embezzled $200 million from banks.

The journalist posted allegations on his

weibo page.

Went on trial in September

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 19

In May Shao Yanfang, a member of Zhejiang's regional

committee of Chinese People' s Political Consultative

Conference (CPPCC), has been disqualified as a political

advisor.

She was found to have hoarded 22 elephant tusks at her home in Jinhua City at the end of last year.

According to Xinhua investigation showed that Shao had

in recent years purchased a total of 36 tusks from two

brothers surnamed Wang.

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 20

Zhou Yongkang

Zhou’s family allegedly made billions

of dollars by investing in the oil

industry, of which Zhou headed the

industries largest oil and gas company,

China National Petroleum Corps.

By March 2014, Chinese authorities

were reported to have seized assets

worth at least 90 billion yuan ($14.5

billion) from Zhou's family members

and associates.

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 21

On June 11 Zhou Yongkang was sentenced to life in prison for

“accepting bribes, abusing his power and deliberately disclosing

state secrets”

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 22

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 23

More than 170 ministers and

deputy minister-level officials

have been sacked and many jailed

since Xi Jinping became leader in

2012

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 24

According to government statistics

more than one million officials

have been punished for corruption

over the past three yeas.

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 25

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 26

56 five-star hotels in China had asked to be

downgraded last year in order to survive, as local

governments have been prohibited from using

luxury hotels.

Chen Miaolin, chairman of New Century Tourism

Group, told Xinhua that revenues at his group’s

(mostly five-star) hotels fell by 18% last year.

(Economist June 25)

Flower arrangements and exotic Chinese dishes

like shark fin have been banned from official

functions.

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 27

Rémy Martin cognac sales fell by more than

30% in the last three months of 2013 over the

previous year, mostly owing to falling Chinese

demand.

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 28

In September China Southern Airlines announced it

would no longer sell First Class seats, now they sell

‘Business Class’

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 29

"China's anti-corruption campaign looks to have weighed

on public spending in some consumption of goods and

services," said Qinwei Wang of Capital Economics.

Wang estimates that the clean up drive may have shaved

GDP growth for the full year by 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points, or about $20 billion.

Source CNN January 30

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 30

Beijing has estimated that since the mid-

1990s, 16,000 to 18,000 corrupt officials and

employees of state-owned enterprises have

fled China or gone into hiding with pilfered

assets totaling more than 800 billion yuan

($135 billion).

Chinese authorities launched Operation Fox

Hunt this year, targeting corrupt officials who

have absconded abroad.

Yu Zhendong, accused of embezzling

$485 million from a Chinese state-

owned bank returned by U.S.

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 31

Leading economist Wu Jinglian has said China's

widening income disparity was largely caused by

unequal opportunity, which is a result of corruption

and monopoly.

"Cracking down on corruption for equal

opportunity is beneficial to improving efficiency.

“High income in monopolized sectors is not a

result of personal abilities. The key in reducing the

income gap lies in rooting out corruption and

marketing monopolized industries,"

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 32

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of

the Communist Party of China

The main party body charged with investigating

corruption.

Former current Secretary is Wang Qishan now Vice President also a member of the Politburo Standing

Committee.

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 33

Shuanggui

Shuanggui – or Double Regulation the process of investigation

where Party Members who are alleged of wrong doing are held for

an interrogation until a decision is made whether to proceed with a

formal case against them.

No rights to lawyer or calls to family

Can be held for up to six months

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 34

Measuring Corruption

Transparency International (TI) has published the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)

annually ranking countries "by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by

expert assessments and opinion surveys."

The CPI generally defines corruption as "the misuse of public power for private

benefit.“

China was ranked 80th out of 178 countries in 2013

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 35

Least Corrupt

Denmark

New Zealand

Finland

Sweden

Singapore

Most Corrupt

Myanmar

Zimbabwe

Cambodia

Eritrea

Venezuala

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 36

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 37

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 38

What is corruption?

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 39

According to 24/7 Wallstreet which has been tracking American

presidents' net worth since 2010. The Bill Clinton net worth figure

stands at an impressive $55 million.

Accounts for a network of companies used to run TonyBlair’s

business interests made $13 million last year

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 40

In 2012

Election

Obama and

Romney

spent over $2

billion on

their

respective

campaigns

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 41

In last year’s mid-term

elections $4.6 billion was

spent

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 42

In 2012 Wrestling Executive Linda

McMahon spent $97 million on her failed

bid for a Senate seat from Connecticut

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 43

Former governor of Illinois

sentenced to 16 years in

prison for trying to ‘sell’

Barack Obama’s Senate seat

11/28/2018 Event Name and Venue 44

Can corruption ever be eradicated?