Re: Tell us, rst0wxyz, what do you think that elections will not work in China.

On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:30:07 +0800, abianchen@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote
(in article
<678b49bd-710c-4fc4-be1c-1bf39e9ced69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

Taiwan has democracy but Taiwan government under Chen Shui- bian has been so
corrupt last 8 years, that does tell us something,


The corruption in Taiwan prior to elections was qualitatively worse than
after the elections began.

My own experience involved applying for a buxiban license several years
before the first free and fair Presidential election (1996). We paid a huge
bribe for the license (and that was routine, business as usual).

Some years later (5?, I can't remember), after the entire ROC government was
freely and fairly elected, we did not need to pay any bribe.

Today, in the ROC, it is no longer routine to pay bribes to get business
licenses.

And I wonder if a corruption investigation that resulted in the former
President and his wife being indicted is really evidence of an INCREASE in
corruption. Maybe it is evidence that the judicial system is aggressively
investigating corruption.


--
Love, Jim
(I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
crossposts.)


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