Is China Becoming a Mafia State? - John Garnaut

John Garnaut is the China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age newspapers. He has written for other publications including Caijing magazine, Tempo (Indonesia), The Diplomat (Australia) and the International Herald Tribune.

Recently his coverage has been recognised with a Walkley award for 'Scoop of the Year' for breaking the story that Rio Tinto's Stern Hu had been arrested; the Citigroup award for business journalism ; and a finalist for the Graham Perkins Australian journalist of the year.

Before arriving in Beijing with his family in 2007 he was Economics Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald, based at Parliament House in Canberra. In an earlier life he was a commercial lawyer in Melbourne. As a child he spent stints in Papua New Guinea and China.

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[lwglwglwg]

Communist China has always been a Mafia state.

[tkell31]

Could be a mafia state? The govt controls what the people do and think, human rights are trampled at will, and stealing trade secrets is a badge of honor. Its been a Mafia state for years.

[Sean Ung]

Who this scumbag .

[Adam Carr]

If China is a mafia state, then they must've learned it from the US

[zhmz888]

law and order is the prime funtion of a responsible government ... because most of people's live-hood is depending on...

[zhmz888]

full of BS... 1.if you challenge to overthrow system of US, you will be in jail,same thing in china, if you want to overthow the governing system of China, and caugh .. you will be dealt with... more likely it will be more confident than before..thanks for those john like expert (stiring thing with ill purpose but noble excuse.. why because most of chinese had wake up with those BS!!

[zhmz888]

john sounds like a typical man from india ..haha

[zhmz888]

John Garnaut, a case of dogdy journalism

Posted on January 2, 2011 by kchew The more embarassing or awful for China the better it seems. Hence it is not surprising that their accounts are often highly

John Garnaut is a reporter for the SMH / Melbourne Age that is stationed in China. I don’t normally read his report as I consider them trash from an avid China hater. I am not really sure why Fairfax Press would send such amateurish silly journalists to China, as they seem to do nothing .

[ming xing Wang]

Are you kidding?

[damagejackal10]

The guys a tool. The sad fact is, that its easy for any english speaking academic to go to China today and be an "Western Expert" on the issue of Chinese governance and have a whole mob of gullible folks back home considering your opinions as substantial.

[IIoWoII]

lol, Bo Xilai.

[rtmccarthy]

Is there a chinese translation of this?