I beg to differ. Before Enron there was a similar scandal in China and the people involved got the death penalty and the others got life in a Chinese prison. If the economy is jeopardized substantially, then the elite are likely staying up all night working to fix it. Using actual professionals, not the people who work in Hollywood.
It is the government that is corrupt. You can do anything in China with a payoff. I will get the low down from a friend who lives there when he arrives in June.
You can also do a lot of things they put others in camps for if you don’t speak out against the government.
Non citizens can do whatever they want because the government wants their revenue.
They do stupid things like make work for their citizens. The work is done poorly so these people can do the job over the next year. That is stupidity. They refuse to change their ways of doing things even when foreign advisers will tell them they are way behind in times.