Posted on 01/21/2024 10:15:17 AM PST by Chode
Earlier this month, Bloomberg carried an article which included claims about corruption in the PRC's Rocket Force .
Those claims have gotten plenty of attention – so today, I want to look into corruption and anti-corruption campaigns in the PRC, some of the claims from the article, how we might interpret them, and what all this might mean for the PLA and the region
Some PLA generals are going to be awfully angry about losing their gravy train.
got their ricebowls broken...
Corruption and bribery are the blood that runs the CCP. The CCP runs a multi-billion dollar propaganda campaign to convince Westerners the China is just like the west culturally; to understand China one just has to use western norms, values and assumptions.
In doing so, westerners will become increasingly terrified of the Chinese Dragon and surrender without firing a shot - so great will their terror become.
Some PLA generals are going to be awfully angry about losing their gravy train.
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And other generals will step in and take the gravy the others had to forgo. That’s how China works.
ever watch the two white biker guys china videos?
Yes both C-Milk and Serpent Z watched them for years, also the China Observer and so others.
They really aren’t bikers - that just happens to be the cheapest way to get around China - both fled for their lives with their families a few years back.
i dint mean it negatively, just the easiest descriptor...
i was in Shaanxi the 80’s, i’m sure it’s unrecognizable now
CIA writes for bloomburg, news at 11.
I know you weren’t, but others might not so ...
Shenzhen is becoming a sleepy country town of 500K
Shenzhen Deserted: Factories, Shops, Worker Dorms All Demolished! Now a Relic of the World’s Factory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei7npSohz4M
For more about the dire conditions in today’s China
The China Observer.
https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaObserver0/videos
Communist research and development's first option is always to STEAL technology rather than get someone to discover it for the glory of Communism.
Likely there are elements of truth on all points in this video, the only question is how much it weakens the Communist Chinese Military in comparison to it's size (an area where they do have an advantage).
My solution, to Never Have Done Business With Communist China, has long gone down the road of the past, and is irretrievable.
gotya
wow, it was such an up&comer when we were there as we had a plant there also
we JV’d — Corning Asahi Video(CAV) making tv/crt’s because the Chinese wanted their MTV...
Here’s good one on the PLA missiles the Pentagon tremble at the very mention
China’s Desert Fake of Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier Exposes Hypersonic Missile Failures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRipYJRw9e4
100% first option is always to STEAL technology absolutely, they even tried it wi the tv production
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Some bribery and corruption existed in the Soviet military. Only terror kept the bribery and corruption to acceptable levels.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, unrestricted bribery and corruption hollowed out Russia’s military. I won’t be alive to see it but I predict the same for China.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, unrestricted bribery and corruption hollowed out Russia’s military. I won’t be alive to see it but I predict the same for China.
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And Chinese bribery and corruption far exceeds Moscovia’s right now. Everything in China requires a bribe even going to the doctor - you have to pay a bribe to get the doctor and another for the nurse, etc.
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