China being a communist country, I'm sure they want to show the people the harsh consequences for corruption.
In North Korea, you get a death sentence for even something a lot smaller.
China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
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> In an authoritarian government basic liberties we take for granted in the West are considered corruption Could you list some of those basic liberties? Are they the sort of liberties whose exercise involves taking half a billion in bribes? --- Generally, basic liberties like showing up to a protest aren't considered corruption, they get called terrorism, or somesuch. A Texas judge just sentenced a dozen people to 30…
>Some of the people given 30 weren't even at the protest. That by itself isn't a convincing argument. You can't plan a bank heist and be waiting at your safe house and say, "I'm not guilty of anything, because I wasn't in the bank!". The mafia guy doesn't get to say, "I didn't actually whack the victim, I just nodded to Joey, and he did the whacking". You might be interested in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal…
Thank you for giving a front-page example of the CCP's logic when it comes to dealing with protests and dissenters. Find one who did something illegal, hang the rest for conspiracy.
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Oh really? Your american KGB knows nearly everything about me, as well as about any other person with internet access (and also those without), without any "warrants", "judges", etc Never even imagined in Soviet Union. You are the ultimate horror.
"my"? I'm not even american. "american KGB"? pray tell, who would that be? FBI? NSA? ICE? Even with their tooling, they are still struggling to legally acquire information, and even more so to act on it. There's even considerations of abolishing these agencies. Try suggesting the abolition of the MSS as a mainland Chinese national and see what happens.
"Fbi, nsa,.." - I dont care much about their acronyms or the organizational structure
"Still struggling to legally acquire information.."
I dont doubt for a single moment, and I dont think you should, that you are right there in their database, with your identity, psychological profile, and all the rest. Now whether it was acquired "legally" i dont know, but when they choose people to murder abroad, I dont think that matters much.
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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
In your opinion, which specific criminal acts have American executives committed in the last 20 years? Holmes et co have been charged and incarcerated, SBF is also sitting in prison, other executives at smaller companies have also been prosecuted and faced imprisonment. I think there is a lot of fraud in various industries, but some of it is prosecuted, and some of it is legal enough that there is only a fine to pay.…
Just a few from the executive branch:
Insider trading - Using knowledge of impending policy decisions and military operations to massively profit from the stock market.
Further than this, one could argue that those policy decisions were made, or at least timed, in order to deliberately short stocks in order to reap profit. The timing of a lot of the Iran war announcements followed very suspect patterns.
Using the highest office in the land to promote personal businesses.
Awarding military contracts to companies linked with family members of the administration over other more suitable options.
We'll likely never see any accountability for the literal billions being illicitly gained by the current administration after they've left office.
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Who, exactly, were the "perpetrators" of Covid19?
Whoever funded the laboratories in Wuhan.
According to Wikipedia, the lab leak theory is, uh... unproven to say the least.
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"my"? I'm not even american. "american KGB"? pray tell, who would that be? FBI? NSA? ICE? Even with their tooling, they are still struggling to legally acquire information, and even more so to act on it. There's even considerations of abolishing these agencies. Try suggesting the abolition of the MSS as a mainland Chinese national and see what happens.
"Fbi, nsa,.." - I dont care much about their acronyms or the organizational structure "Still struggling to legally acquire information.." I dont doubt for a single moment, and I dont think you should, that you are right there in their database, with your identity, psychological profile, and all the rest. Now whether it was acquired "legally" i dont know, but when they choose people to murder abroad, I dont think that…
> I dont care much about their acronyms or the organizational structure
So I call bullshit on your argument.
> dont doubt for a single moment, and I dont think you should, that you are right there in their database, with your identity, psychological profile, and all the rest.
I do. Perhaps I am there. Perhaps I'm not. Perhaps my name is there, but the data is wrong and/or misleading. I'm not going to deny USA's alphabet boys abilities, but I'm not going to glaze them either.
Nor I'm going to ignore that I might also be on the PRC's databases as well. They might not bombing people yet, but foreign policy can change easily.
I'm simply going to do my best to protect my privacy, not pretend that either of these regimes wouldn't kill me if they find it convenient.
That said, it is undeniable that USA would have more issues pulling that off domestically, and, arguably, even internationally. PRC has an entire legal apparatus for doing this domestically.
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#409In the West, $325M in bribes is called Monday!