When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed

Re:When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed by vixen99 on Thursday May 10, 2012 @02:32PM (#3955137)

The article tells us that lives in the US were valued at $4.85 billion. So what was the payoff for victims in China that permits the conclusion that 'American lives are quite cheap unlike those in China'?

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Re:When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed by bilbo0s on Thursday May 10, 2012 @04:35PM (#3955864)

Uhhh...

The fact that NO AMOUNT OF MONEY could save you from prosecution in China maybe?

In fact, the American Conservative can point to several dead Chinese 'Boardroom types' to make a quite convincing argument that no amount of money could even save them from execution in China.

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Re:When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed by tsotha on Thursday May 10, 2012 @10:52PM (#3957328)

Or maybe the people who were executed are the ones who didn't have enough money.

Anti-corruption campaigns are very common in China. They'll go through and execute a few hundred people at a time. But they don't make a dent in actual corruption, because the only people to get executed are the ones without connections.

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