China Economic Review
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Communist Party on high costs of "mistresses"

November 15, 2009

 Qi Peiwen, a party discipline enforcer, on how having mistresses can lead to corruption among officials:

"It’s just not possible to keep a mistress on your salary because maintaining this sort of extravagant lifestyle requires a large amount of cash money. So what do you do if you don’t have the money? Naturally, you’ll use the power at your disposal to go find some.”
 

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