We have gone through this before. There is no comparison between infidelity or drunken behaviors vs corruption, which is far far worse. Corruption in the PLA is not as bad as I think but as bad as those who lives in China and was in the PLA think. They wrote and raised alarms about it. Why is it that PLA generals and admirals are allowed to be CEOs of PLA owned corporations ? Why is the PLA allowed to own corporations in the first place ? This is collusion between the military and business and you have the gall to laugh at me when I point out the corruption between politics and business in China ? You want to talk about the military-industrial complex ? Look at your own China.
I never said there is, you just raised that issue and I answer it.
PLA definitely has a corruption problem that much anybody with half a brain knows. The question is how much does it affect the PLA and how much will it affect it in the future.
This may shock you, but lots of Chinese have the ambition of being the best in the world, this is especially true in the military, and through our efforts, our training efforts in special forces are of world class standards as proven in many international competitions.
The corruption in the military definitely erodes, but that is also one of the draw backs of a peacetime military, with no military accomplishments to draw from, when time comes for promotion, who's to say who's better unless the difference is quite big.
As to why the military has businesses, which are now more or less left their hands, is because the country has no money. The military for a long time was living on scraps from the budget. China was in a development first attitude, no one paid any attention to the military, they were initially built to better the lives of ordinary soldiers, and in some cases just to pay for medical, or other living expenses.
Obviously they are greatly abused since then, but the original thought was one of necessity that you being in America couldn't even think of.
I didn't laugh at you for politics and business, I laughed at you for talking about things you know nothing about, be technician and that's it. Human to human interactions is very difficult, I can be 100% sure, if you use what you said or thinks about how favors or something are secured you will fail 100% of the time and 99% of the time, you won't even be in the door. The other is if somehow you knocked on the wrong door and the guy you wanted to see is there.
I never said anything about MIC, don't know where this is coming from.
We are raising alarms and we are changing, this is also why the downed plane search was a good thing that it exposed the PLAN and the recent exercises also exposed our weaknesses. Like battalion and regiment commanders had problems with coordination, and new live fire exercises with no obvious targets, cross country mobilization, and a lot of other new practices are really helping to expose the PLA's weakness which will be fixed and won't be a weakness in a year or two.
We are also adding the practice of not demote or stop a promotion or even duck points for a failed exercise, so less pressure on a exercise and the more reasons for the commanders to take risks in exercises to test new strategies and a few other effects.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The Chinese people does not live under the rule of law but of personalities and whenever any of them achieved any measure of state power, the odds of that person being corrupted increases dramatically, according to your own social critics that the Chinese government imprisoned for pointing out. If the Chinese people is sick, it is because The Party made them that way.
Power corrupts, but now there is a new outlet for that, like America we can spread that to the rest of the world, instead of keepign it inside China. A lot of your businesses are pretty inhumane outside of America, but inside America they are an angel, well sort of, we will and are doing that now.
Do you know how many people are openly critical of the government, do you know how many are imprisoned. I talked with leverage about that. You can be anti China, but you also have to be anti something else as well, just anti China will not be good, but still not that serious, it's serious only if you make a big deal.
As a side note, that nobel prize winning clown that said China needs to be colonized, do you know when he was anti China and when the take down happened? He had a good 20 year run, before he got clipped, so it's not a one word and you are done deal. Be critical sure, but don't go over the top and try to topple the government.
There are thousands of protests, none of them are arrested, at least not many or we know, I say this because Weibo is so powerful now, not much is not known in China.
We also got tons of people outside the country too.
While I dont' agree with it that's where the line is drawn.
Rule of law, sure rule of law is not as good as the US in some parts, but no rule of law means anarchy, does China look like it's in anarchy right now.
I will also point out, a lot of people within the PLA especially the younger generation, welcomes this crack down, and welcomes a cleaner PLA, they amy tolerate it when they must, but given the option, they would choose to concentrate on doing the best they can for the army they love.
The party is arbitrary, you whole definition of party is flawed, which party are you talkign about? The Mao party that destroyed the rich, the Deng party that experimented with capitalism, the Jiang party that dove head first into capitalism, the Hu party that sacrificed too much for progress, or the Xi party that's hell bent on making China the preeminent power in Asia and the world.
Which party, cause a few of them are in opposite sides of the spectrum, and thus cannot be all.
One party is now just one government. Would you feel better if we eliminated the party system and revert back to simply, servants of the nation with the only affiliation to the nation of China. Which is more or less what's happening now.
There is no 'maybe' Xi is corrupt or not. Xi is corrupt. In the US, state and federal level candidates are usually compelled by public opinions to disclose their tax returns to show how much they earned. In your China, your political leaders are corrupt enough that they have to make laws that prevent scrutiny into how much wealth they have.
Xi is corrupt, big words, probably true. I'm not going to get into this debate with you on whether the US is better here or not, I'll just say this, America has 16 trillion dollar economy, Walmart employees can't feed themselves, so even if American politicians aren't corrupt, that money isn't really trickling down to the masses are they, so where are they. Does it make you feel better if as long as the money doesn't end up in a politician's pocket?
I can also say European democracies works pretty good.
Did you not understand my posts, Europe, or Western europe to be precises matches the criteria for democracy, the democracies there wasn't installed, but they each not only got it themselves, but invented it and improved upon it. They are the original nations.
Yes, I will. The Wenzhou train disaster would serve as an excellent example of the co-dependency of politics and business in China that ended in disaster, the kind of relationship that you laughed at me about.
Are you also going to tell your children about the 10,000 km of track we have now and that will be doubled to 20,000 in a few years too? Also the California train plan that went no where and apparent goes no where as the new destinations are places, I never even heard of and I been to Cali quite a few times.
To that last part, read what I said again, and carefully consider what I said, did I question the existence of the relationship, or did I question the nature of it, and the realities of it.
