Chinese Communist Party
2 June 2012. On May 31, major Chinese Communist Party media the China Youth Daily and Xinhua both criticized Global Times, a newspaper usually seen as very close to China’s central political authorities. Both major media expressed condemnation against a recent editorial that had appeared in Global Times, then spread online under the title “Global Times: Modest Corruption Should Be Allowed and Understood By the Public.”
The article proved deeply controversial, and many netizens reacted with outrage and disbelief at the call to simply tolerate corruption among China’s unelected Communist Party officials. The argument turned on the proposition that, “Corruption cannot be fully eradicated in any country, the key is to control corruption to the extent allowable by the public,” and that, “China clearly has high corruption, [but]conditions are not yet in place to thoroughly eradicate corruption.”
Watch this video: State-Run Chinese Paper: “Modest Corruption” Should Be Allowed
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