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...after dispatching reporters to interview him. The essay blamed leaders in the provincial capital for putting up with corruption as a normal cost of development, something Huang called "perplexing and incomprehensible." He clearly knew what he was up against. "Many of my actions have broken the unspoken rules of officialdom," he writes. "It is these unspoken rules that indulge corruption and corrode the body of our Party...
...Ross Munro has written, “academic Sinologists tend to produce polite reports and mushy books that rarely go beyond cautiously advancing the consensus of the Sinological establishment. Even when addressing China’s direst problems, they have perfected language and phrasing that will not offend Chinese officialdom. To offend is to jeopardize one’s ability to visit China and interview Chinese officials and academics—access that constitutes the bread and butter of the Sinological trade. No access means no field research, fewer research grants, and—for the top Sinologists?...
Tillerson plays a key role in ExxonMobil's efforts to find new fields, especially in Russia, where he is well connected to officialdom, all the way up to President Vladimir Putin. If he can grab a greater presence there, he will help assure the company's future--and maybe his own. --By Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas
...International (TI), an anticorruption watchdog, evaluates the world's countries according to how graft-free their societies are. This year India ranked 83rd, Pakistan 102nd, and Bangladesh, at 133rd, was dead last. With the world's second largest population and Asia's third largest economy, the size of Indian officialdom's graft is staggering. According to a TI 2002 report, police, doctors, teachers, judges, taxmen, land-registry employees, railway workers and utilities regulators make off with petty bribes amounting to $6.2 billion a year, or 1.3% of the country's GDP. In Bangalore, for example, TI documented how half...
...Ultimately, both films are indictments of the paralysis in organizations where unchecked power and conflicts of interest are endemic. Forget the murderers and terrorists?the upper echelons of state officialdom are, in many ways, the real villains. For a country feeling increasingly betrayed by the gerontocracies of government ministries, this theme has a particularly powerful resonance. "You can replace the police force with the government," says actor Kotaro Koizumi?whose father swept to power two years ago on a reform agenda and has battled the same demons in reality that his son faces on screen. "The movie shows...