Beijing’s Interest in Offshore Tax Evasion Limited to Corrupt Officials

Beijing has made much of its effort to “hunt foxes’’—track down corrupt officials living overseas and repatriate their wealth. But there is a far bigger pot of gold available to Beijing, if it chose to track down wealthy Chinese evading taxes abroad.
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Beijing’s Interest in Offshore Tax Evasion Limited to Corrupt Officials
U.S. dollar notes are counted next to stacks of Chinese 100 yuan (RMB) bank notes at a bank in Huaibei, in eastern China's Anhui Province, on Sept. 23, 2014. STR/AFP/Getty Images
He Qinglian
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He Qinglian
He Qinglian
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He Qinglian is a prominent Chinese author and economist. Currently based in the United States, she authored “China’s Pitfalls,” which concerns corruption in China’s economic reform of the 1990s, and “The Fog of Censorship: Media Control in China,” which addresses the manipulation and restriction of the press. She regularly writes on contemporary Chinese social and economic issues.
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