The system must also supervise the courts. The moment that the article was printed in Kansas, a high-level investigation into the judge's conflict of interests was started. The U.S. Congress even held a public hearing to discuss possible measures to prevent future conflicts of interest from emerging in their sacred courts.
    
In 1998, the Chinese government sought to "promote a clean and honest government and ensure fairness in justice", promulgating a law exploring methods to investigate breaches of ethical conduct in the courts. The Shenzhen judges were quite familiar with this widely publicized document, yet eight years later, they still failed to live up to it. And not just one, but several of them.
    
Eight years later we still have no statistics or proof to tell us exactly how pervasive this misconduct is elsewhere in the judicial system. We have no way of knowing wither it has increased or decreased over time. What we do know is that the justice system requires more oversight and to continue to progress. In this sense, we must in one respect study the west.
    
We cannot set our hopes too high and seek to root out corruption from all courts. But, at the very minimum, we must ensure that judges resembling the previously praised and popular Shenzhen gang are not themselves corrupt.