China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

Post by loeg » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 10:35 PM UTC

golem14 wrote: post #216

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Shkreli's investors straight up testified they didn't feel victimized and that they would invest with him again. He didn't lose them any money or have any actual damages to people for the crime he was convicted of. I don't think he'd go to jail for what he did there in China, or even probably Singapore. If you're thinking of the pharmacy drug price jacking thing, the thing he did that physically harmed many people, h…

> Shkreli's investors straight up testified they didn't feel victimized That makes it right? And that is what you think is reprehensible about him ?

Post by fritzo » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

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dzonga wrote: post #144

does punishing corruption with a death sentence - look excessive ? Yes! is it prone to abuse by those who yield power - Yes! however - the alternative - where corruption goes unchecked is even worse!! if you come from a poor country e.g in Africa - you would've experienced the effects of corruption. American are now experiencing it now - & the country is already worse off. though before corruption in American was use…

Death sentence is excessive. But many people here will be comparing it to the USA where the current punishment for corruption is nothing. Literally nothing. You just get away with it in plain sight We don't need death sentence, we just need, like, any regular sentence

Post by anigbrowl » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 10:46 PM UTC

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Only one person opened fire. He got 100 years. (I agree that he shouldn't have gotten a slap on the wrist for what he did, but I'll happily point out that killers serve less, if at all.) The rest got 70. None of them had guns. The guy who got 30 years wasn't even at the protest. --- There is no universe where this is not completely batshit insane, but it's interesting to see you use the exact same logic[1] the CCP ha…

I think your confusion comes from the fact this wasn't a protest gone awry, it was an organized domestic terrorist attack. It was a small group of armed people in body armor who privately organized a domestic terrorist attack intending to cause damage and hurt/kill federal officers in an ambush. The only reason the officer lived was because Song's gun jammed before he could kill people and get away. Certainly if this…

Post by threatofrain » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC

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Danox wrote: post #115

The antifreeze toothpaste people didn’t get away with it, nor did the 3000 pigs in the river people, and nor did that one group of executives who were in charge of a fertilizer/chemical plant that was one of the largest industrial catastrophes in the world let alone China. If you get caught in China, Vietnam, or Singapore the penalties for white collar criminals is zero tolerance. You can’t buy your way out if you do…

? Everyone in the party is incolved in similar crimes. The only thing they are guilty off in addition is a lack of loyalty to emperor xi. Incompetence and criminal corruption, that you can edit out of history, but intrigue is unforgivable.

Post by throw10920 » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 10:57 PM UTC

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That's one of the big cultural differences that people from the West don't really get - that "saving face" is one of the core concepts that Eastern societies are built on - not the actual things that, when discovered, cause you to lose face (e.g. corruption).

Saving face is certainly A Thing, but China has also had a strict legalistic tradition extending back about 2500 years. There's rather more to Chinese public life and philosophy than 'Confucius say' and the CCP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalism_(Chinese_philosophy)