From the outside, it appears that "upset the regime" includes "cheating your way into profits".

That said, it's very difficult to be sure if what I see from the outside is propaganda. Or rather, it is always propaganda even when it's true, and I can't tell how much of it is China's own self-promotion vs. other people giving negative propaganda.

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victorbjorklund 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You don’t think president Xi:s family and friends cheated? Of course they have. Yet they don’t go to prison.

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ben_w 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm saying from the outside, it doesn't look like that. That's a much weaker statement, as should've been obvious from what I went on to say about propaganda.

Example of cheating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officials_implicated_by_the_an...

And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal#Arre...

Nevertheless, it would be interesting if someone could, you know, prove, and not merely allege, that Xi Jinping's family or friends cheated.

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ctchocula 5 hours ago | parent [-]

https://panamapapers.org/case-study-china

	▲	ben_w 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yup, that's the kind of thing I have in mind. Even with the sub-heading "It's legal, and that's the problem.", and even though this kind of cheating is broader than this reply chain from "There is no such thing as too big to fail in China", this is absolutely within bounds for what I asked for :) and the not-proof-read AI generated image, that never helps…