China's happy army of overworked and underpaid censors have been working at lightspeed to erase all mentions of the Panama Papers from Chinese websites now that the country's elite have been revealed as some of the bad people hiding their money in those secret bank accounts in the world's tax havens. Yes, China has embraced capitalism as an economic model but, is it really necessary to emulate the corrupt decadent west? I thought they were better than that what with all their pure as the driven snow, holier than thou and supposedly incorruptible government officials and businesses. What a joke. They're just as greedy and corruptible as everybody else.
Websites ordered to purge all reports related to documents following publication of political elite’s offshore secrets
Websites ordered to purge all reports related to documents following publication of political elite’s offshore secrets
Documents from the leaked Mossack Fonseca database showed the relations of three of the seven members of the Communist party’s elite ruling council, the politburo standing committee, had companies that were clients of the offshore law firm. They included relatives of Chinese president Xi Jinping.
A Communist party censorship directive instructed news organisations to purge all reports, blogs, bulletin boards and comments relating to this week’s highly sensitive revelations.
“Please self-inspect and delete all content related to the ‘Panama Papers’ leak,” the order said according to China Digital Times, a website run by the University of California, Berkeley.
BBC and CNN broadcasts about the revelations have been blocked all week in mainland China.
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