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President-for-life Xi Jinping Facing Massive Pushback From the CCP, Insider Claims
A former professor at China’s elite Central Party School has issued an unprecedented rebuke of the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, accusing him of “killing a country” and claiming that many more want out of the ruling Chinese Communist party.
Cai Xia, a prominent professor who taught at the school, a higher education institution for top officials, was expelled from the party on Monday after an audio recording of remarks she made that were critical of Xi was leaked online in June. She is no longer in China. The school said in a notice that Cai, a professor at the party school since 1992, had made comments that “damaged the country’s reputation” and were full of “serious political problems”.
In her first interview[*] with English-language media since her expulsion, Cai told the Guardian she was “happy to be expelled”.
[*] 'He killed a party and a country': a Chinese insider hits out at Xi Jinping.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Friday August 21 2020, @12:46AM
First of all, plenty of northern European nations kept many non-commodities off the market so you're suggesting a link that isn't there.
Regardless, that's just moving the goalposts: Whether its white color crimes or violating environmental and/or safety regulations, in western democracies you can often find major businesses getting away with causing more harm to the public than a crime syndicate ever could in a totalitarian regime. And again, the same distinction holds true: When criminal organizations get too notorious, there's a chance they'll get taken down. But when a chemical plant blatantly disregards lives and releases toxic that end up poisoning a whole city, it get settled in a civil case since the state's attorney doesn't feel like going against the people the pay for his reelections.
Still, in the end you can't really isolate the impact of crimes vs. corporate greed. So, you're left with with quality of life and GDP growth figures. They have flaws. Especially GDP. But in the end, they favor nations that keep non-commodities out of the market with almost no exceptions.
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