KEY REPORT HELPS TO REVEAL THE WEALTH AND CORRUPTION OF THE CCP

By revealing the corrupt nature of CCP, the CRS report helps the world to grasp the fundamental nature of CCP.

An important Congressional Research Service (CRS) report was released in Washington at the end of May. The report studied the publicly available information on the wealth and corruption of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This includes the General Secretary of the CCP, Xi Jinping, and senior leadership officials of the Central Committee, the Politburo, the Politburo Standing Committee, the regional Party Secretaries, as well as the leaders of the five autonomous regions, and four municipalities that report directly to the central government. This was mandated by members of the U.S. House and Senate and also tasked the U.S. intelligence community with producing a similar, publicly available study.

The report was precipitated by the fact that the CCP leadership and their families are as wealthy as Croesus while shamelessly espousing socialist rhetoric. Precisely how did selfless CCP leadership gain this wealth on their nominal salaries is curious and it is certain that the Chinese people will wish to know.

The CRS report is of paramount importance for four reasons. First, it reveals for global audiences the corrupt nature of the CCP and to identify pathways for investigative journalism, documentation on social media, and how states within the Quad may wish to employ their resources, including their intelligence communities, to document these facts.

There is a rich menu of topic for journalists to explore and for other media, perhaps most importantly social media, to highlight the CCP's wealth and corruption, and so publicize and thus inform global populations.