Lai Xiaomin, the top figure of a state-owned financial company in mainland China, was recently sentenced to death by the Chinese Communist Party for embezzlement and bribery of nearly 1.8 billion yuan, causing much controversy. The verdict said that Lai Xiaomin embezzled and took bribes of nearly 1.8 billion yuan, and his home was even built up a wall of 100 yuan bills, as well as hundreds of mistresses and hundreds of properties. This has become a hot topic of discussion after dinner on the mainland, and another important reason for the buzz is that Lai’s death sentence seems to have broken the unspoken rule of immortality for the Communist Party. There are very few cases of death sentences being handed down and actually carried out, no matter how heinous and outrageous the crimes are.
The extreme discontent of the mainland public with the immortality of the mega-corruptions should be matched by a general discontent with the CCP’s judicial cases, namely, that the mega-corruptions in the mainland are rarely arrested and prosecuted, let alone tried and sentenced to death for astronomical amounts of corruption. The meaning of the immortality of corruption is that the CCP’s authoritarian and dictatorial system itself is a breeding ground for corruption, and the system will only continue to breed corruption, and the expectation that the CCP system will eliminate corruption is only a fantasy of the uninitiated.
In fact, the word “deathless” is far from sufficient to summarize the CCP’s preferential treatment of the corrupt. As long as the party leader is a member of the party or an ally of the party leader, even if the corruption is known to the world, it is as secure as a mountain. For example, Xi Jinping‘s main partner Li Zhanshu, whose daughter bought properties in Hong Kong for tens of millions of dollars, was not only not pursued, but also denied and apologized in the press.
The family of Jiang Zemin, Zeng Qinghong, Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao, and other bigwigs in the Communist Party, each with astronomical assets, are all enjoying their wealth, and none of them have been investigated for corruption because they either have done credit to Xi Jinping or because Xi Jinping’s political balance is unshakable. The majority of Xi’s political opponents who have been prosecuted for corruption have also been caught heavily and put down gently. For example, Zhou Yongkang, Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou, Ling Plan, etc., the mainland has long been rumored to have corrupted tens of billions of dollars, but the final verdict announced the punishment of money, often less than the amount of corruption of small local officials such as police officers village chief.
And even if these corrupt people are sentenced to prison, the Communist Party has set up cells with different levels for them, so they can still enjoy different treatment according to their original official positions. This hierarchy of cells is the CCP’s unique contribution to authoritarian regimes, and is an unprecedented innovation for human authoritarian regimes in history.
In fact, the deeper meaning of the Chinese Communist Party’s system of immortality is that, in essence, the Chinese Communist Party’s system is designed to tailor to the needs of the corrupt, so not only will the phenomenon of the corrupt not be extinct, but it will become more and more corrupt and more evil. Materialistic desire is an innate human attribute, and satisfying it through various means, including corruption, is a natural expression of human attributes. And can curb or restrain the corrupt behavior of people, one is the human society over the centuries to cultivate the virtue of honesty and integrity, but can have this virtue and always carry out the extremely few people, one in a million may also be too optimistic. In today’s continent, where there is no political philosophy but only fame and fortune, the virtue of integrity has become a widely laughed at foolishness.
Second, the rules and punitive laws that human society has developed to suppress corruption, but even if these rules and laws are indeed shrewd and effective, they have at best restrained corruption from proliferating and never removed officials from using their power to corrupt. Unfortunately for the people of the mainland, there is no element of integrity in the CCP’s rule, nor is there a rule that can effectively suppress corruption, nor a legal system that can be enforced seriously, effectively, and fairly. From the perspective of the reality of CCP rule, it is the CCP’s totalitarian system that nurtures and feeds the mega-corruption, the means and need for CCP factional rule.
The CCP bureaucrats’ loyalty and obedience to their superiors is necessary to hold on to their positions of power, and they have nearly unlimited power over their subordinates. The CCP’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and other anti-corruption agencies have not only been widely reported to be illegally detained and tortured, but also to have extorted large sums of money from corrupt officials by means of censorship, which is already commonplace and has to be reported by the CCP. And from the core of the Chinese Communist Party’s power to corrupt privileges in exchange for absolute allegiance to the ministry, is also the entire mainland society knows the unspoken rules.
There is always a spectacle when there is a civil service application on the mainland, that is, hundreds of people vying for a minor Communist Party position. This is not only because once you enter the public sector, you are guaranteed a good salary, but also because with this official uniform, there are bribe payers lying at the door and working as a bully, so it is clear that the source of the Chinese Communist Party is the hotbed of corruption. As long as the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarian centralization is still rampant in the mainland, the phenomenon of giant corruption does not die, especially the deeper meaning of giant corruption does not die, people will only witness more new and strange phenomena, Lai Xiaomin sentenced to death is only a small wave of the huge flow of corruption.
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