For his latest installment of the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab illustrates an imagined nightmare of outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao. At the upcoming 18th Party Congress, during which Wen is expected to cede his position to Li Keqiang, Wen is delivering a work report. However, in this nightmare, he instead finds in his hands a copy of the New York Times exposé of his family’s vast wealth, and he is naked. In the background, the other representatives are laughing at Wen, but they are also naked. “Naked officials,” a term that denotes cadres whose ill-gotten wealth (and family) has been shipped overseas, appear frequently in Crazy Crab’s cartoons.
Grandpa Wen’s Nightmare, by Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm for CDT:
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