This story appeared in the Sunday, October 6, 2013
Los Angeles Times sighting a major crackdown on bribery in china. It appears
that it is Chinese tradition to give expensive gifts to those with an impact on
your future like teachers, doctors, your boss, and the like. Officials in the
Chinese government have tried to escape blame but claiming that some of these
‘gifts’ were given to family member such as wife, son, or even mistress. This
tactic appears to rarely result in acquittal.
The biggest challenge facing this crackdown is that
if they persecuted all government officials who participated in bribes they
would imprison a large part of the government. Chinese teachers have reported
that keeping up with the common invitations to dinner by the families of their
students is difficult, and that it is offensive if they say no. There has been
at least one reported case of a doctor being attacked and battered for refusing
a bribe from the family for one of his patients.
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