Singapore and HK do not have democracy but they have one of most clean
and efficient governments in the world, defeinitely much cleaner than
Jim Walsh's beloved Chen Shui-bian and DPP!!
Hey, Jim Walsh NEVER criticized Chen Shui-bian and DPP's corruptions,
that means,he is OK with CSB and DPP"s corruptions.
On Aug 18, 3:23Â pm, Jim Walsh
gmNOail.com> wrote:>> Â There are corrupt officials in the Chinese government, of course - there are
>> corrupt officials in every government, but that doesn't mean that the leaders
>> of the Chinese government are corrupt.
>
> Were the case as you describe it, your conclusion would be fair. But in fact,
> corruption is a MUCH bigger problem in China than average.
>
> Transparency International reports that China's index number is 3.5
> (confidence range: 3.0 to 4.2).
>
> 10 would be perfectly clean. In 2007, the highest score was 9.4 (Denmark).
> 0 would be completely corrupt. In 2007, the lowest score was 1.4 (Somalia &
> Myanmar -tie).
>
> Not surprisingly, there are virtually no long-term democracies with an index
> score worse than China's.
>
> South Korea is typical of countries scoring around 5.
>
> Taiwan is at 5.7.
>
> Japan is at 7.5.
>
> In other words, China is VERY VERY corrupt.
>
> The following analysis is interesting.
>
>
http://www.stratfor.com/china_hu_speaks_loudly_anti_corruption_moves
>
> --
> Love, Jim
> (I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
> crossposts.)
>
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