Comment on best part of the movie was when Xi said "IT'S PURGIN TIME!" and purged all over those guys
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Damn, setting aside the China Bad hysteria, this is pretty big news
China expels second-highest ranking general, 8 others over corruption
According to the ministry, the Central Military Commission (CMC) Discipline Inspection Commission, the PLA’s top anti-corruption body, investigated the officers and found they had violated Party rules and were suspected of serious crimes involving large financial misconduct. The offences were described as having an “extremely serious nature and egregious impact.”
Imagine living in a country where top officials actually get investigated and removed for wrongdoing.
Must be nice.
Ah yes, presidents for life are traditionally very tolerant of internal powerbases not their own. Corruption charges have never been dishonestly brought against potential political rivals, great point!
Unrelated, but I have a bridge to sell someone as wise and discerning as yourself!
presidents for life
He’s been in office for 13 years. Angela Merkel served for longer as PM of Germany. Narendra Modi has been in office nearly as long, as President of India. FDR served for longer. Calm down.
Unrelated, but I have a bridge to sell someone as wise and discerning as yourself!
The thing about your type is that you only know how to bomb bridges. You’ve forgotten how to build them.
Yes, we measure freedom by how long someone is in power, not by small things like changing the constitution to abolish term limits or using the justice system against any and all rivals! Very smart!
Debunking three myths about the end of presidential term limits in China
using the justice system against any and all rivals!
It’s always dizzying to see western liberals insist the Chinese state is riddled with corruption, then blow their tops the moment anyone in China is identified and prosecuted for corruption.
I keep coming back to Guo Wengui, an outspoken Chinese billionaire ex-pat who claimed he was being persecuted for his liberal politics and not involved in a string of high profile scams. Six years after his arrival, he was up on charges in New York for the exact same set of fraud charges he’d fled Beijing to avoid. And - almost on reflex - Guo went back to the same playbook, insisting that SDNY prosecutors were pursuing him for his political views and not his defrauding of clients.
This is a tail as old as time in western politics. The US, the UK, and France absorb foreign con-artists under the auspices of political refugee status. And then these con-men go right back to defrauding people in their new host nation.
I wonder how many more Chinese dissidents Keir Starmer and Donald Trump will rescue after this latest purge.
eta@feddit.org 1 week ago
That depends. Were they really investigated because they did something wrong or rather because they were no longer useful politically or because they dared to oppose Xi?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Imagine a president who found corruption in his administration and decided “corrupt officials aren’t useful, they should be removed”.
Soulg@ani.social 6 days ago
So… Like when Bidens DoJ prosecuted corrupt congresspeople?
Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 6 days ago
They were trying to start a coup with the US. So Xi purging the generals also sets back his plan to invade Taiwan.
stickly@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Never ask: