Comments by "disgruntledtoons" (@disgruntledtoons) on "China Observer" channel.

  1. The Chinese's tolerance for corruption has come to bite them. Corruption doesn't just take the form of bribery, but also favoritism in hiring and promotions when the position has great prestige or high pay. With favoritism in hiring comes the hiring of incompetent people, and with the hiring of incompetent people comes shoddy engineering work.
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  2. They almost certainly are.
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  3. The Chinese middle class never really did consist of its small businessmen. In China, the upper class consists of the CCP brass, the middle class consists of the CCP rank and file, and the lower class consists of everyone who isn't a CCP member.
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  4. With a government like that I'd rather have enemies.
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  5. All the money in the world wouldn't cover the damage done by the CCP.
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  6. Imagine living downstream from a dam in China.
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  7. Not mentioned so far: A large number of recently-constructed buildings were built to very, very low standards. I doubt that they did anything above the bare minimum of foundation work, if that. These floods are going to bring down more than a few of these "tofu dregs" high-rises.
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  8. We can see that Xi's anti-corruption campaign was only a pretext for eliminating opposition. If he'd cleared away corruption regardless of loyalties, the scope of this problem would be far smaller.
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