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Chinese babies stolen by officials for foreign adoption - LA Times.
In some rural areas, instead of levying fines for violations of China's child policies, greedy officials took babies, which would each fetch $3,000 in adoption fees.

China needs to do something about their corruption issue. This is a bad situation for all involved, and I don't see any good solutions.

In a perfect world all adopted children and "possible biological parents" would have DNA testing done. But, unfortunately this is not going to happen. China's government, in my opinion, is going to want to sweep this under the rug as it is the 60th anniversary of the revolution and attempt to contain the scandal and minimize any unfavorable publicity.

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A nice blog I found by an ESL Teacher in China, http://blog.scott.tylers.info/ and a discussion that I have contributed a bit on with my 2 cents about a hidden cost in China is corruption. It's amazing the amount of corruption there and think about how much money is drained off due to corruption there. This fixable world

No, I really don't want to expand the discussion to the US Campaign funding system, influence peddling, and earmarks that are a problem, but much smaller where corruption is everywhere in China. From getting into the right school, making sure you get adequate care in a hospital, and more...

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Chinese Grease the Wheels of Power With Luxury Gifts - NY Times.

Fascinating story about how luxury gifts are used as bribes in China for government officials.

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China: villagers beat official over quake relief - AP. Interesting what is behind the headlines (corruption). And how careful the official China media is being with this story...

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LA Times today has an article on Avery - Avery Dennison case a window on the pitfalls U.S. firms face in China.

Avery has a long history of doing business in China, since the founder of Avery went to China in College (Pomona) and was fascinated by the place. He even set up a prize for having Claremont Colleges related students go to China (yes, my submission lost).

The problems that Avery is having right now in China my guess is in a pretty gray area, and with the amount of corruption in China, it's hard to separate right from wrong. Entertainment can be a legitimate business expense, and the factory tours where you accidentally visit Disneyland.

My thought is M-F, 8-5PM should be work related, but weekends and nights are acceptable for non-working related activities. Now if you have no factory trips at all that's going over the line, IMHO. Of course when you start getting lawyers involved with zero tolerance, the line may no longer make sense.

References:

• China's Rose Parade Challenges

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Washington Post article that a new corruption web site in China was overwhelmed and crashed. The question is why the web site? There is a new agency in China for fighting corruptoion, National Bureau of Corruption Prevention. China is trying to reduce corruption, the challenge is it goes pretty high in the party. So there is a lot of suspicion whenever corruption charges are brought up there may be a political component. There is a huge amount of anger in China about corruption which the central government is being careful on how they handle it.

Historically speaking, the US used to be much more corrupt (Tea Pot Dome Scandal and Tammany Hall for example) and has somehow gotten to our current state where there is not much corruption and is a society pretty much where laws are obeyed.

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