WikiLeaks: China's Politburo a cabal of business empires

[Joanne98]

Source: Telegraph

China's ruling Politburo is a cabal of business empires that puts vested interests over the needs of the poor and curtails media freedoms to avoiding having shady business deals exposed in the press, according to a leaked US government diplomatic cable.

The damning description of China's secretive leadership machinations also described how the descendants of China's Communist revolutionaries – known as "princelings" – derided officials from less august revolutionary backgrounds as mere "shopkeepers".

The assessment of what motivates China's opaque top-level decision-makers was relayed to Washington in July 2009 in one of the 250,000 cables published by the WikiLeaks website.

"China's top leadership had carved up China's economic 'pie,'" the US embassy contact said, "creating an ossified system in which 'vested interests' drove decision-making and impeded reform as leaders maneuvered to ensure that those interests were not threatened." The US embassy contact also asserted there were no "reformers" within the top Communist Party leadership, only competing factions that sought to protect their business empires from attack by in-coming leaderships.



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8184216/WikiLeaks-Chinas-Politburo-a-cabal-of-business-empires.html

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WOW! Sounds exactly like our government!

[villager]

1. globally, it's a corporate mafia vs. the rest of us...

here, there...

When do we finally rise up against it?

[SpiralHawk]

17. The Chinese 'leaders' are all Republicons

Ptoooey on that. Thought things were queer when the Bush brothers were over there brownosing.

[awoke_in_2003]

2. Sounds like they are learning

from our example.

[Iterate]

3. I thank the embassy for an accurate view of China,

and understand more fully now about what they mean when they talk about competing with China.

They intend for us to create a more ossified system with greater 'vested interests' driving decision-making and completely impede reform as leaders maneuvered to ensure that those interests are never threatened, even by the world's poorest peasants 12,000 miles away, or a small group of 10 or so journalists and staff trying to protect a few terrified whistle-blowers.

[JDPriestly]

4. Well, our diplomatic corps got that one right.

That is usually what happens when a violent revolution deposes an authoritarian regime. The violent revolutionaries, regardless of their initial intent, usually become authoritarian in their turn.

And, it could happen here if it hasn't already.

On edit, that is why change must be non-violent. Violent changes usually just perpetuate violence.

[katty]

5. no doubt - the tangled web of governments choking the people

as usual.

[niceypoo]

6. China is a republican wet dream

A totalitarian capitalist dictatorship

[glitch]

9. All brands of Republicans. nt

[saigon68]

12. The Bush-Obama War goes on

"Bring Em ON" shouted the AWOL Chimpanzee

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. Even the colors match! -nt

[Scruffy1]

7. Just like us-no different

[JJW]

8. Sounds like the US

WTO and the IMF pretty much run the world. They rest of us are welfare/consumer drones and individually totally meaningless to the system.

[Kaleko]

10. Very revealing. Recommended. n/t

[cowcommander]

11. "Let China Sleep, for when the Dragon awakes, she will shake the world." -Napoleon Bonaparte

[Ginto]

13. Now I truly fear for his life. nt

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Joanne.

[FamousBlueRaincoat]

16. how come they're only targetting AMERICA and OBAMA!?!?

Oh wait, I forgot, I'm not an idiot that only listens to what mainstream news tells me. Never mind.

[Nihil]

18. Sounds just like the Senate ...

... and the House of Lords for that matter ...

[Overseas]

19. Creepy. //nt