US Intel Report: Corruption Is an ‘Endemic Feature’ of Chinese Communist Party

The report reflects a ‘first step’ that U.S. officials are taking to expose Chinese communist authorities’ corruption and Achilles’ heel, an expert says.

The Liberty Crossing Building, home to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, in McLean, Va., on April 24, 2015. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Corruption is an “endemic feature” of China under communist rule due to the opaque political system in the party-state and the lack of checks and balances, according to a recent U.S. intelligence report.

The report, released on March 20 by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), states that bribery increases “an official’s legal earnings by four to six times.”