I'll be the first to criticize the US, but you're throwing stones in a glass house.
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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Nono, those are good™ billionaires.
I mean tbf they did say "white collar criminals," not "billionaires." China is famously more willing to slap its rich criminals than America.
Oh def consider Forbes of rly kinds of credit about Mani Mani.
Thankfully, a very thorough rebuttal has been written for this half-argument
Both countries protect the politically insulated.
I've seen so much shady stuff with execs in China. They're stuffing their pockets just the same. What is this post
The situation is most definitely not the same. If it was the same then corporate media wouldn't spend much time criticizing China, they'd be happy with having yet another country to freely exploit.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78nrx309kzo
This kind of thing never receives serious consequences in the US anymore. Hell, do enough white collar crimes and pedophilia and they make you president.
Splinter, beam
ML users piss on you and tell you it's raining
ew a .world account
Okay.
You are hilarious if you think oligarchs are only in one spot in the world.
And yet where are the high ranking members of the CPC in the Epstein files?
What's a CPC?
Communist Party of China
Is the assumption here that there are no CPC pedophiles?
I'm saying that the meme is correct insofar as Western oligarchs can commit crimes and participate in extremely large criminal conspiracies, as proven by the Epstein files. No such scandal has been proven of China.
I would conjecture that the political system of the PRC is more resilient to the kind of corruption and abuses that need to exist for decades for a conspiracy of that scale to develop. I don't really have hard proof of that but it's at least inarguable that comparing the West to China, China is 1 - 0 in terms of not being exposed for having a giant ring of pedophiles that control everything.
Is your assumption that an equivalent conspiracy exists, despite no evidence? And to the extent that there are abusers and evildoers in the CPC: why aren't they in the Epstein files? There's people from almost every other country on the planet on there, why no one from the second largest country on Earth and the main trade partner of the US, where most of the people involved are based?
lol, these rancid fucks run the world wide
But Xi’s support for mixing private and public ownership structures was purely pragmatic. It had value, he said in another forum, because it would “improve the socialist market economic structure.” Xi’s assessment is echoed by Michael Collins, one of the CIA’s most senior officials for Asia. “The fundamental end of the Communist party of China under Xi Jinping is all the more to control that society politically and economically,” Collins argued earlier this year. “The economy is being viewed, affected and controlled to achieve a political end.”
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The party’s overarching aim, though, has remained consistent: to ensure that the private sector, and individual entrepreneurs, do not become rival players in the political system. The party wants economic growth, but not at the expense of tolerating any organised alternative centres of power.
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“[Capitalists] act as if they are being chased by a bear,” wrote Zhang Lin, a Beijing political commentator, in response to these comments. “They are powerless to control the bear, so they are competing to outrun each other to escape the animal.”
source quoted from China Has Billionaires
China's known for handing out the death penalty to high profile white collar criminals. This article is from 2013 but AFAIK it's continued to happen since then, maybe Western media has caught on that people actually love this stuff so they haven't reported on it as much more recently.