Quite naive so. The thinking that one can at least understand the rationale of not killing a hen laying golden eggs has no place in China.

The reality is exact the opposite, and elites routinely keeping shooting the country, and themselves in the foot. Why should they care?

Any ranked party member half way the ladder already has enough privileges to swim in lard for the rest of his life.

I was pretty much there when Shenzhen govt bulldozed close to 10000 factories in between 2009, and 2012 for universiade vanities. That was one third of regions industry! One third

That was single most economically suicidal move I've seen any government do, and that was right after the global financial crisis.

That made a double digit dip in country's exports, and industrial output, so big it was.