China’s Communist Party mouthpiece defends ability of one-party rule to tackle corruption
Commentary in the People’s Daily highlights graft cases in US and success of Singapore’s single party ahead of Friday’s 95th anniversary of the founding of Communist Party of China
China’s Communist Party’s mouthpiece has published a commentary that has jumped to the defence of the ability of a single-party system – as found on the mainland – to successfully tackle corruption, while citing both the United States and Singapore as examples.
It said serious corruption could exist where there was a multi-party political system, such as in the US, while the People’s Action Party, which has been Singapore’s ruling political party since 1959, was an example of a clean government.
The commentary said some people remained sceptical about whether the party would eventually win the battle against corruption among officials, while others believed graft in China would become ever more rampant and that the party was doomed to fail while it stuck to the mainland’s existing one-party rule.
“Is a multi-party system a panacea that effectively prevents corruption in a real sense?” said the article, in the People’s Daily on Tuesday.
It argued that cases of corruption could be seen from time to time in the US, in which politics was dominated by either the Democratic or Republican parties.