By: Will

Will — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:21:15 +0000

Although the soft-authoritarian Wen Jiabao looks pretty good in comparison with a hard authoritarian like Bo Xilai or Zhou Yongkang, it would be very difficult to believe that Wen would not enable and profit from Ping An’s rise, even if mostly indirectly through his rich relatives with a major stake in that company. In an unaccountable political system like the CCP’s authoritarian bureaucratic capitalism, the idea of a totally upright high Party official is simply naïve.

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By: Will