China's problems: vested-interest or reform?

I thought this article provided a backdrop for my thesis on the inability of Chinese Internet groups to form productive alliances. The lack of suitable social protocols, was even reinforced by the lack of conditions to make one. An open group would tend to close-up when facing unruly users and scrupulous competitors. Something out-of-sight of our fieldwork seems to be at work, encouraging extreme measures against out-groups. It would be hard to imagine Wowinterface launch vicious hacking attacks on WowAce. However, it was rumored that attacks between sites happened in China. It appeared to be morally acceptable for Chinese groups to cat-fight for supremacy. But in an environment where corruption is a way of life, what other measures would be worse?

Finally, I agreed with with Sun that an environment encouraging short-term vest-interests and seeking stability (twisted form of harmony) leads to nothing but decay.

Quote: "When corruption becomes a way of life, when it becomes something beyond reproach, and when it becomes something everyone denounces and at the same time desires, the whole society has entered a state of maldevelopment."