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23 May 2013
China’s President Xi Jinping has announced a full-scale attack on corruption, stressing that he will crack down on both "tigers" and "flies"–powerful leaders and lowly bureaucrats in the government. He is the first leader of China to so publicly condemn corruption and to acknowledge that it is a rising threat to governmental cohesion and economic prosperity.
Almost every day sees new headlines across the world about corruption, from indictments of public officials in New York State, to tens of thousands of Indian citizens coming together in New Delhi in vast anti-graft protests.
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