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I agree. My country of origin is Bulgaria, which has its own bad reputation in that matter ( corruption ). I would say what stops our country from collapsing is

I agree. My country of origin is Bulgaria, which has its own bad reputation in that matter ( corruption ). I would say what stops our country from collapsing is the EU and the democratic constitution which has a political pluralism principles inside. Even though the term politician in my country is associated with corruption there's always a refreshing fear of a ruling party shift that keeps the country going. IMHO Communists in China haven't got any of these real worries and the country lives In sandbox with millions of people as a workforce. That being considered economic crisis like that are expected and what is even worse ( again... In my opinion ) is that things will not change if the sandbox model continues.

brc 11y ago
The key feature of democracy is not necessarily having people choose their own rules, but instead enabling peaceful power transitions. Any place where people can still legitimately change the government through democracy is likely to have a reasonable cap on the corruption levels, but that still assumes other functioning parts of society, like an independent judiciary, free press, freedom of speech and association, etc. Most of those things aren't the case in China, so, absent evidence, you'd have to assume China is more corrupt.