However, Chairperson, the most fascinating observation from the study trip was concerning the discipline and accountability that has been maintained in political governance since the late 1970s in the absence of checks and balances on state power.
One would have expected the ruling elite of the Chinese Communist Party to a fallen victim to the corrupting influence of concentrated power, but human fallibility seems to have been constrained over the last almost 40 years.
Given that China is a one party state with the key political economic and social leavers are held in the hands of a few and control very tightly, I concluded that this phenomenon must have something to do with the leadership ethic and the coherence political will of the communist party elite.
My thesis is that, the country experience of the political economic and humanitarian disaster of ideological excess during the Cultural Revolution gave