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How do you see Xi's anticorruption campaign? Is it just a club to beat political opponents with, or is there a real problem and he's trying to fix it?
by AnimalMuppet 7mo ago
How do you see Xi's anticorruption campaign? Is it just a club to beat political opponents with, or is there a real problem and he's trying to fix it?
- PaulHoule 7mo agoBoth
- jimbokun 7mo agoKnowing nothing my guess would be he wants all the benefits of corruption accruing only to himself.
- curio_Pol_curio 7mo agoThere's an interesting paradox hiding in plain sight here: Xi imported the anticorruption strat from Singapore, so superficially, PH below is correct. Since SG has the opposite problem from China: ((low) gov corruption XOR (low) social trust). The paradox is that the strat will have wildly different failure modes in SG vs CN or JP (all are aware of this!) Note also that SG is consistently ranked in the top 10 together with the Nordics+NZ+IE+CH in spite of this failure mode.. My informed opinion is that LDP+loyalist-bureaucrats have been shipping and failing the same strat for years-- LDP dominance is the tell. Any critique of Xi's policy can be backed with JP data. Prediction: Xi will succeed if and only if CPC fall (or do the ship-of-theseus thing) https://archive.ph/hsTzy https://archive.ph/hsTzy https://www.fairobserver.com/world-news/japans-new-ldp-scandal-is-unlikely-to-change-much/ https://www.fairobserver.com/world-news/japans-new-ldp-scand... Keywords (actual jargon) 天下り (fox->human) 忖度 族議員 行政指導