My main allegation is that this has created a toxic culture inside the bank, where people know there's a subterranean network of relationships—like the cool kids in school, as it were. I was warned about the power of Chinese Communist Party members, who are in league with each other as a favoured class inside of the bank. They have undue power and control inside the bank. It stifles free expression in the bank and sours the culture.
When I joined the bank, I was told there was a crisis of bullying. In fact, there was an anti-bullying program that the bank was developing at that time, which we called “respectful workplace” after I arrived. The departments that were most concerned with bullying were the departments that were under Communist Party members.