Corruption is extremely rampant in China, especially at the local level. Xi has been fighting corruption for the past 10 years and it just never ends. Like, literally never ends.
" :smuglord: smh you silly tankies, Chyna is corrupt communist hellhole, those YouTubers were right!"
They should try to be more like America and just build corruption into the system and make it all legal, that way it isn’t corruption anymore, problem solved!
It’s just as rampant in the West, though I’m mostly struck by how the heck are there so much corruption in China as though the risk of getting caught under a decade long of anti-corruption campaign is still worth it. A few heads of major banks were just prosecuted for corruption a couple months back (amongst many others charged with corruption in recent years), but you can’t help but to wonder why would they keep doing it knowing full well that the government has been cracking down on corruption?
(Actually I have my own theory, it has a lot to do with the decentralized nature of governance where a lot of authorities have been ceded to local/municipal level).
" :smuglord: smh you silly tankies, Chyna is corrupt communist hellhole, those YouTubers were right!"
They should try to be more like America and just build corruption into the system and make it all legal, that way it isn’t corruption anymore, problem solved!
It’s just as rampant in the West, though I’m mostly struck by how the heck are there so much corruption in China as though the risk of getting caught under a decade long of anti-corruption campaign is still worth it. A few heads of major banks were just prosecuted for corruption a couple months back (amongst many others charged with corruption in recent years), but you can’t help but to wonder why would they keep doing it knowing full well that the government has been cracking down on corruption?
(Actually I have my own theory, it has a lot to do with the decentralized nature of governance where a lot of authorities have been ceded to local/municipal level).