POL 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Crackdown, Guanxi, Interpersonal Ties
Document Summary
President xi is china"s most powerful leader since deng. Main problems facing president xi and china (modernization): Rapid growth of educated, sophisticated middle class. By making his major policy objectives clear to the west, xi has made his objectives clear. This presents him/china as pragmatic, reliable, understandable, consistent to developing countries as well. People who are acquiring some property and some wealth are interested. Evidence that corruption among ccp officials has been increasing since 1990s. Corruption has become more complex, involving networks of officials and. Corruption threatens the ccp"s control over party officials, especially local businessmen officials. In the age of the internet, it is impossible for the regime to cover the scandals, as they have done in the past. The kind of corruption that is occurring has been changing over time. Local officials have an incredible opportunity to reward state contracts in exchange for favors.
