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Expose in detail the massive corruption at the very top levels of the Chinese Communist Party. While tariffs and sanctions can always be spun as an attack by hostile foreign forces, if the Chinese people, most of whom are desperately struggling, see how much money their top leaders have embezzled, game over.
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We break the Great Firewall of China. The best way to do that is if @elonmusk opens up Starlink to China. Yes, the CCP would retaliate against him and he’d lose the Gigafactory and his other assets in China. But the CCP won’t be in power long after that.
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Chinese people knew how corrupt China was in the Jiang/Hu eras, and while they certainly weren’t happy about it they weren’t overthrowing the government then. Now in a time of considerably less corruption thanks to Xi’s efforts some magical exposure of the corruption that still exists would probably just lead to people shrugging and saying “at least it’s better than 20 years ago”.
“Um, actually” it’s not the amount of corruption that matters, but the optics (see the Brazilian coup of 2016)
It’s still the most ridiculous and unfeasible “plan” 😅🙏