The point is, Chinese officials selected through their merit selection process, continue doing their job well, corruption or not.Right...So essentially you are saying that a closed electoral system do not have the environment for corruption.
Someone better tell Comrade Xi that.
Case in point for China, Liu Zhijun, Minister of Railway, sentenced to death for corruption, built a working world class railway system that is envied the world over.
Singapore, Teh Cheang Wan, investigated for corruption but committed suicide, helped build our model HDB public housing that is emulated widely by other nations.
Whereas in the Philiippines, Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant, completed but never fueled, on Bataan Peninsula, 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Manila in the Philippines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Corruption is undesirable, but difficult to eliminate totally, even in Singapore, but it is important to have competent officials that can function well, corruption or not.
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