OLD FASHIONED BRIBERY – MAKING A FASHIONABLE COME BACK IN CHINA

As China falls back into old Communist style control, the underground bribery channels are coming back to life.

“I couldn’t get a pass into China to oversee my company,” said one BTJ business partner in China this week. “I applied for a pass to get back into China, but was rejected eight times. Then, one day I was introduced to a Chinese government official who promised to get me a pass to get back into China. I simply paid him ¥1,500 RMB ($210 USD) and the next day I was given permission to travel into China!”

Corruption has been a major problem in China since 1949 after the Communist Party took power, but bribery became less and less as China opened up to the world. However, since the 2019 crackdown on the church and the draconian covid-19 response (which was more about power than public safety), China has seen the return of bribery.

Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index ranks China in 66th place out of 180 countries in the Index and is currently in free fall.

“Living here is horrible,” reported one BTJ partner, as Shanghai goes back into lockdown this week. “The schools are shutting down again, stores are closing, and we are given warnings not to leave our home again.”

The level of distrust and unrest is increasing in China and is creating a very unstable environment in the nation.  As distrust in the system increases, so too does the bribery. In extremely inefficient systems like Communism, bribery becomes a normal way of life. China had two decades of things gradually getting better, but that progress might have been wiped away in just the last three years.

Dr. Eugene Bach is a known trouble-maker with an active imagination and sinful past. He has a PhD, but is not a real doctor, so please do not call for him during a medical emergency on an airplane when someone is having a heart attack. Eugene started working for Back to Jerusalem in the year 2000 after a backroom deal involving Chinese spies, the NRA, Swiss bankers, and a small group of Apostolic Christians that only baptize in Jesus’ name. He spends most of his time in closed countries attempting to topple governments by proclaiming the name of Jesus and not taking showers. From time-to-time he pretends to be a writer. He is not good at it, but everyone around him tries to humor him.

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  1. Mary Elllen Gilvey

    I just read that Xi Jin Ping if re-elected will far succeed Mao Zedong as China’s best leader. He has taken China’s Communist Party to New heights. They have great surveillance within its own confines of China knowing what everyone is doing and where they are but in a Modern Communist Backed Empire and not the rigid stern dictatorship that once was typical of a Communist Run Country. Xi Jin Ping has great concern regarding his country and its youth and the economy which is extraordinarily wealthy now all because of Xi Jin Ping’s great economic strategic planning which made China a Super Power of trade and manufacturing and it made China very rich and their wealth of technology is also superb. Kudos to you Xi Jin Ping and rhe Communist Party for running a great Nation like China is today.

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