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Trickle-Down Economics for Chinese Officials

The acceptance of a 36% pay cut by the world’s highest paid politician, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, has renewed attention to the wide disparity between world leaders’ salaries. Hu Jintao sits near the opposite end of the spectrum to Lee, with an official salary of just $11,000. From Al Jazeera English:Hu’s salary is low not only in absolute terms, but also by comparison