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I kinda start to think is this article related to people Xi trying to crack down in China. Very similar to pervious Bloomberg stories, the sources and timings a

by ninjayi 11y ago

I kinda start to think is this article related to people Xi trying to crack down in China. Very similar to pervious Bloomberg stories, the sources and timings are very suspicious. Not saying the story is false or anything.

kylebrown 11y ago
Not sure if paid shill or just biased? The Bloomberg article was about the wealth amassed by Xi's extended family.[1] This New Yorker piece cites an article by Geremie Barme which points out that of the 48 highest-profile corruption cases, none were targeted at "second-generation reds" (aka princelings)[2]. Note that the very high profile case of corrupt princeling Bo Xilai was just prior to Xi's appointment. The ostensible anti-corruption crusade embarked on afterward was targeted at scapegoat officials "from ‘commoner’ 平民 families." Indeed, Barme's article quotes numerous princeling Party officials extolling the inherent virtue of "bureaucrats from the Red Second Generation" and their naturally-born resistance to vice and corruption (Bo Xilai is an exceedingly rare anomaly). Instead, the real danger is "Bureaucrats who come from extreme poverty in youth easily fall prey to vile excesses of corruption, whoring and gambling." > It goes with saying that, in the murky corridors of Communist power, an impressive number of party gentry progeny, or the offspring of the Mao-era nomenclatura, have been implicated in corrupt practices, but word has it that, like the well-connected elites of other climes, they’ve enjoyed a ‘soft landing': being discretely relocated, shunted into delicate retirement or quietly ‘redeployed’. It’s all very comfy; and it’s all very much business as usual. 1. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-06-29/xi-jinping-millionaire-relations-reveal-fortunes-of-elite http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-06-29/xi-jinping... 2. https://www.thechinastory.org/2014/10/tyger-tyger-a-fearful-symmetry/ https://www.thechinastory.org/2014/10/tyger-tyger-a-fearful-...
LiweiZ 11y ago
You know the game better than most of people here. Are you from mainland China as well? Or can read Chinese?

by ninjayi 11y ago

kylebrown 11y ago

Not sure if paid shill or just biased? The Bloomberg article was about the wealth amassed by Xi's extended family.[1] This New Yorker piece cites an article by Geremie Barme which points out that of the 48 highest-profile corruption cases, none were targeted at "second-generation reds" (aka princelings)[2]. Note that the very high profile case of corrupt princeling Bo Xilai was just prior to Xi's appointment. The ostensible anti-corruption crusade embarked on afterward was targeted at scapegoat officials "from ‘commoner’ 平民 families." Indeed, Barme's article quotes numerous princeling Party officials extolling the inherent virtue of "bureaucrats from the Red Second Generation" and their naturally-born resistance to vice and corruption (Bo Xilai is an exceedingly rare anomaly). Instead, the real danger is "Bureaucrats who come from extreme poverty in youth easily fall prey to vile excesses of corruption, whoring and gambling." > It goes with saying that, in the murky corridors of Communist power, an impressive number of party gentry progeny, or the offspring of the Mao-era nomenclatura, have been implicated in corrupt practices, but word has it that, like the well-connected elites of other climes, they’ve enjoyed a ‘soft landing': being discretely relocated, shunted into delicate retirement or quietly ‘redeployed’. It’s all very comfy; and it’s all very much business as usual. 1. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-06-29/xi-jinping-millionaire-relations-reveal-fortunes-of-elite http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-06-29/xi-jinping... 2. https://www.thechinastory.org/2014/10/tyger-tyger-a-fearful-symmetry/ https://www.thechinastory.org/2014/10/tyger-tyger-a-fearful-...

LiweiZ 11y ago

You know the game better than most of people here. Are you from mainland China as well? Or can read Chinese?