China's Defective System (and dangerous imports)

The Communist Party has
been trying to fight corruption since 1951, just two years after it
came to power, but it has proven utterly incapable of investigating
itself. There will be progress only when independent prosecutors can go
after senior officials and try them in impartial courts. That, however,
cannot happen because the Party will never subject itself to the rule
of law and the supervision of the people. To do so would implicitly
accept representative governance, but it has ruled out structural
change of that sort.

At the core of its beliefs is the notion that it not only has the
right but also the historical responsibility to lead China for all
time. The late Party statesman Chen Yun perfectly summed up the
fundamental dilemma that Beijing faces when he remarked, "Not fighting
corruption would destroy the country; fighting it would destroy the
Party."

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