China's Central Commission for Discipline and Inspection, Briefly Explained

Today's video is about the Communist Party's inter-Party mechanism for rooting out corrupt officials. It goes into their methods and the challenges that the CDIC faces in challenging members of the very organization it belongs to.

[shazmosushi]

If you liked this video, you will be interested in the video on this channel titled "Colonial Hong Kong’s Successful Fight against Corruption: The Formation and Operation of the ICAC" (Independent Commission Against Corruption)

[warmonger]

Outstanding vid, bud!

Keep up the great work; you're producing some of the best and most balanced China content on YouTube.

[bronzedisease]

They were often compared with 钦差 (royal court representative) in pre modern China. It's very inaccurate but does have some similarities. For one thing if the local government fuck with them it can expect swift and extreme reprisals. It's a bit like killing a federal agent in the us. There was one incident where an investigator was burned to death in a hotel fire in Shantou. Not only was the local leadership purged, even the city was sidelined for development and project while other nearby towns boomed

[Lightshayde]

Whataboutism is not a bad thing. I know you are doing good work covering Asia and it's entirely unreasonable to ask you to look at Western corruption, but comparison is inherently built into nature of close and analytic examination. Anything that can be analyzed as a unit can also be analyzed as part of a larger unit. We are all part of the human race and corruption is an aspect of humanity that we have to engage and deal with, if we (as humans) want to continue to survive and thrive on this planet.

[alexmartian]

7:56 "39% cadres received discipline". From all cadres? 39% of all were found to be wrong? Isn't it very large %?

[bradk]

An informative and interesting video. One criticism I have is the use of relatively older statistics. I’d be interested to know the stats from the post-Xi era, and how the compare. If there is a difference I think that would be very interesting.

[jerrybaird]

Much as one might disparage the CCP, you have to respect, and even admire, the objectives of the CCDI, given the level of corruption in China, both presently and historically.

[John_Smith_]

Singapore's Transport Minister was recently arrested for taking freebies from a event organiser. Not even money, just concert tickets and free meals. Lolz. If we let loose our Singapore anti-corruption bureau on the CCP, I think nobody would be left

[alubto]

In CCP, you have to blend in to do greater good, so even good politician corrupt.

It’s whether you’re in the right camp decides your fate, I sometimes feel really bad for these people.

[cyzcyt]

The point is to keep up an illusion of discipline. I'm surprised that often times when interviewed, citizens are satisfied with the performance of the cdic. In the west if there was any scandal the first thing people and media would cross examine would be the investigation itself

[Paranoid_Found]

Your Chinese pronunciation is fine (except for the tones)