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SHOCKER: Rampant Fraud Threat to China?s Brisk Ascent. ?The exposure of Mr. Zheng?s faked cred?

By Glenn Reynolds

SHOCKER: Rampant Fraud Threat to China?s Brisk Ascent. “The exposure of Mr. Zheng?s faked credentials provoked a fresh round of hand-wringing over what many scholars and Chinese complain are the dishonest practices that permeate society, including students who cheat on college entrance exams, scholars who promote fake or unoriginal research, and dairy companies that sell poisoned milk to infants. The most recent string of revelations has been bracing. After a plane crash in August killed 42 people in northeast China, officials discovered that 100 pilots who worked for the airline?s parent company had falsified their flying histories. Then there was the padded résumé of Tang Jun, the millionaire former head of Microsoft China and something of a national hero, who falsely claimed to have received a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 07, 2010 (boomark / email).