How does China handle incompetent and crooked bureaucrats?
With extreme prejudice.
China Ex-Food and Drug Chief Executed
By ALEXA OLESEN
The Associated Press
Tuesday, July 10, 2007; 2:24 AMBEIJING — China on Tuesday executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog who had become a symbol of the country’s wide-ranging problems on product safety.
Zheng Xiaoyu’s execution was confirmed by state television and the official Xinhua News Agency.
“The few corrupt officials of the (State Food and Drug Administration) are the shame of the whole system and their scandals have revealed some very serious problems,” SFDA spokeswoman Yan Jiangying said at a news conference held to highlight efforts to improve China’s track record on food and drug safety.
July 10th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Now I can agree with some leftists: we should be more like China.
July 10th, 2007 at 11:38 am
More precisely, they find a scapegoat and shoot him. I think the reasons for China’s “wide-ranging problems on product safety” are probably:
1) Due to decades of the government controlling the economy, they’re too poor to afford many safety features. and
2) The notion that government is responsible for product safety…
July 10th, 2007 at 11:40 am
How would you like to be the poor slob that has to replaced said dead bureaucrat?
July 10th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
A touch on the extreme side. In China they screw up in office they are executed, in the US no one is held accountable for anything as long as they are a local County/City Clerk all the way to the president. I think that if found to have broken the law or go against the constitution in any way while in office politico’s should have thier benefits stripped, and in Congress they should loose their retirement, or worse yet be made to live off of Social Security…. It will never happen though, they know that is too harsh…
July 10th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
What’s more, the government bills the family for the cost of the bullet.
As for being his replacement, it reminds me of the first Star Wars movie, where Vader “fires” one of his staff. Kinda harsh.
July 10th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
I have a friend who help co-ordinate manufacturing in China for Motorola for the last ten years. He says he’s had five or six management teams shot for theft.
July 10th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
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July 10th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Is there any one besides me who is wondering why we are taking the word of the Chinese government that that was the poor shlub who did the dirty deeds?
July 10th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Meanwhile they are still pumping out their nasty crap and hoping for the best.
This won’t amount to a hill of rice. Corruption is as much a way of life in China as it is in Washington.
July 10th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
This won’t amount to a hill of rice. Corruption is as much a way of life in China as it is in Washington.
They are more skilled at it in China.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Is there any one besides me who is wondering why we are taking the word of the Chinese government that that was the poor shlub who did the dirty deeds?
Because they supply us with so many cheap goods of dubious quality?
July 11th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
“The few corrupt officials…”?
In…a…communist…state?
The term “honest communist” would be an oxymoron, so what is a “corrupt official” in China, exactly– one who advocates freedom?
And did anyone else wonder what happened to the manufacturer of said deadly drug? What, no liability at all? They’re not even mentioned in the story.
In the U.S., which is a mixture of socialism (extortion) and capitalism (Liberty) the FDA would approve the drug, maybe after 10 years of super expensive study, and if it then turned out to be dangerous (as all drugs are) the private corporation would suffer all the lawsuits and pay the all settlements. The FDA would then demand “more resources” to get a better handle on the situation, and five thousand more college students would decide to major in law.