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For what I know, no government official has ever been in trouble, let alone being sent to jail, whenever shit happens in the states, from Katrina to Texas Big Freeze. I know for sure Sen. Ted Cruz would have been sacked if he were a CPC officer.
So what exactly is your point?
A little too harsh. Some of them might have just commited an honest mistake, now they have to say goodbye to their political future and even career. But again, this system of accountability may just be what sets China apart from other countries.
Historically, China has never lacked the "rational voices" like his at the time of crisis. In the end, it is always the "radicals' who landed on the right side of history. Gen-Z's voice needs to be heard, laud and clear, so that the West know their propoganda against China backfired.
As for...
With millions of Indian twiters, their "news" have an international reach. This people just don't have the mininum decency of not lying, they would glorify their lying as an "Information warfare" and be proud of being part of it.
Chinese Gen-Z are simply pissed with non-stop Western propoganda and fake news against China and Chinese, and just responding with a middle finger, called it "overconfidence" or "nationalism" or whatever. Chinese "scholars" should just grow some spine and don't really have to be so apologetic.
Here is how their colonial master described Indians: "as passive, ignorant, irrational, outwardly submissive but inwardly guileful".
Dishonesty is in their cultural DNA, and they haven't evolved a bit since independence. Worse, they still have no idea why they suck.