This refers to widespread corruption and the involvement of organized crime in politics. Chu Yun-han points out that when the KMT first came to Taiwan, the leadership, remembering how corruption was fatal to their regime in mainland China, tried to keep the government clean.
朱雲漢指出，國民黨遷台初期，領導者背負著「貪汙亡國」的慘痛教訓，一直勉力維持勤政、清廉的政治「潔癖」。