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Jiang raises Communist Party sword against ’corruption'
BEIJING.’Feb 12: China's Chairman Mao Tse-Tung waged class struggle, his successor Deng Xiaoping battled Marxist orthodox and now his heir-apparent President Jiang Zemin has raised the Communist Party sword against a new enemy — corruption. reports Reuter.
Ask an ordinary Chinese what angers him most about his country these days. Many times the answer will be "corruption."
Question a Chinese businessman on the main pitfall of running an enterprise in China's socialist market economy. The most'eommon reply is "bribes."
"If the support of the people is lost and corruption is rampant fhen the ruling power will be lost." Jiang said, launching his campaign
nearly one,year ago.
Western diplomat and businessmen Identify corruption as the most acute threat to' 47 years of unbroken communist rule since hundreds of thousands of unruly students demanding greater democracy occupied Tiananmen Square in.May and June 1989.
China's authorities eliminated that threat with gunfire. They are adopUng a similar approach to corruption — serious offenders are executed.
Graft-busters acknowledge that even the threat in capital punishment is* failing to frighten many venal officials.
The evil that helped to topple China's last imperial dynasty and fuelled support for Chairman Maq Tse-Tung
against the rampant graft of nationalist general Isslmo Chiang Kai-Shek is costing the communist state billions of dollars and eroding the profits. of a generation of nascent entrepreneurs.
"This is a level of corruption that seems to work." said one diplomat. "A businessman can grease the wheels and get things done.
"But it's when people have to pay and then things don't Cdone that China is going
have trouble."
Corruption yet to reach second stage, say diplomats.
Most diplomats say corruption in China has yet to reach that second stage — although a recent opinion survey showed corruption was second only to inflation on the popular hate fist.
Of those polled. 57.4 per
cent said they nursed a bitter hatred against corruption in 1995 — up by five percentage points compared with 1994. showed the survey published by China Economic News. However. 51.9 per ejent said they lacked confidence in the government's ability to tackle graft.
Poor wages, a battalion of legal loopholes opened up during 17 years of sweeping economic refofm and sheer greed are among the major causes of corruption, say officials of the Ministry of Su-6ervision and the party s iscipline Inspection Commission that are ihe main watchdogs of government probity.
The unchecked power wielded by Communist officials is possibly the most overriding reason, diplomats
say Few Chinese officials dare to acknowledge this.
The higher the rank of a leading cadre, the more difficult it Is to supervise him. Luo Ji. head of the higher people's procuratorate anticorruption office formed jusj two months ago. toM an official newspaper last month.
Asked If his graft-busters could operate independently of the government both in theory and practice. Luo's reply revealed the depth of , the problem China faces in establishing an autonomous Judiciary.
"NOt only is the prosecu tor's power Independent in theory but alio in practice, it Is not subordinate to the government." he said.
Corrupjion hampers fight against intellectual property piracy
Foreign firms battling piracy of intellectual property in China are finding that graft has become one of the many obstacles on their road to justice.
Tn some cases, prosecutors are unwilling to take action unless the trademark owner or Its agents provide a < ase handling fee" which is lU'imally no less than 15.000 Vu in (2 00<> dollars). The New York, based International trademark association said In a recent report.
The degree of protection Ism. and in some cases bla tant corruption, which have been encountered leads us to believe the (administrations of industry and commerce) will lie less than cooperative in «ny central government initiatives to address rampant piracy." the report said