Report Links Chinese Elite to Offshore Tax Havens
on January 22, 2014
Attention is on President Xi Jinping's family and its wealth at a time when Xi has emphasized fighting corruption.
Attention is on President Xi Jinping's family and its wealth at a time when Xi has emphasized fighting corruption.
In trying to block Chinese traffic going to Sophidea, the Great Firewall's operators accidentally diverted more traffic there.
(Op-ed) “surprising behavior from a government that says it really wants transparency to flush out corruption.”
The state-run China Internet Network Information Center blamed the blockage on a “malfunction in root servers.”
Former prime minister who spent time with Xi Jinping notes the importance of language proficiency.
Relatively loose cencorship of the recent offshore tax reports has some thinking that the CCP is ready to talk.
More than 50 reporting partners in Europe, North America, Asia and other regions investigated 2.5 million leaked files.
Chinese, European and Western journalists worked together to successfully leak a highly sensitive and secretive story.
The documents also disclose the central role of major Western banks and accountancy firms who acted as middlemen.
The data illustrates the outsized dependency of China's economy on tiny islands thousands of miles away.