This is why Trump’s “Ask the Chinese to investigate Joe Biden” gambit is a brilliant chess move.
The Chinese know they are corrupt. They have facial recognition cameras in cities that know when someone jaywalks and sends them a ticket for Pete’s sake. You think they don’t know what payments were made by who to whom in an American administration?
We always hear how when dealing with the Chinese, you must allow them a pretend moral way out, what is called “Saving Face.”
Amazing that it is never up to the Chinese themselves to “Save Face” by correcting their behavior. Seems to me recognizing your own bad behavior and fixing it would be the best face saving possible.
The Chinese are also part of the Hunter Biden story.
The New Yorker did a lengthy piece on Hunter to scrub his history a little bit—but the Chinese are there, in the weeds:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaign
When Chinese business partners give you an 80 grand ring it is not a bribe—if you are the son of a Democrat!