How Much Corruption in China?

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2:32 PM, Dec 19, 2007 • By MICHAEL GOLDFARB

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A Chinese government website set up for the public to complain about corruption crashed within a day of launching under the volume of cases reported.

McClatchy's Tim Johnson reported on another element of China's pervasive corruption a few weeks ago:

a law professor in Beijing is proposing a new category of crime - sexual bribery. This is supposed to combat the prevalent practice among corrupt officials of taking mistresses.

The article says Fang believes that 95 percent of officials exposed as corrupt have taken mistresses, and that obtaining sex for influence may be common. But the criminal code does not penalize this kind of sexual coercion as a crime.

One suspects this practice may be quite prevalent in the USA, as well, but 95 percent?

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