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Re:China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes by Sammi on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @03:02PM (#48822120)
It's like you're so close to getting it. Xi is serious about "corruption" alright. It's just that in an authoritarian state "corruption" is really just used as a euphemism for illoyality.
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Re:China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes by VulgarExigency on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @03:16PM (#48822332)
If having corruption as an euphemism for "illoyality" means we get the same kind of public investment in infrastructure in the west as China does, then I'm all for it. Seems like here we only have the corruption part, except they call it lobbying and rub it in our faces.
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Re:China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes by maxfurman on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @03:05PM (#48822158)
How can a soccer player be loyal or illoyal to Xi?
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Re:China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes by IAmBroom on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:09AM (#48847226)
Duh, by saying things Xi perceives as disloyal... which in China can be something as bizarre as posting a picture of Winnie the Pooh.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855

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Re:China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes by ianm218 on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:41PM (#48824287)
But there is also tons of actual corruption especially in the military [1] which is maybe by design so you never know if a purge is political or legitimate or both.

[1]. https://www.businessinsider.com/china-corruption-rocket-forc...

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Re:China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes by jibal on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:03PM (#48825183)
Trump pardons people for a fee.
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