Personnel story . Get it ? GET IT ? <| sep |> Floodgates in general , if I had to choose . Domain . <| sep |> Np Hey , are you picking up any new games on sale tomorrow ? <| sep |> Worked out tho . <| sep |> Illuminati . The idea of a group of oligarchs controlling politics is very plausible . What happened in South Korea just last month was a small scale Illuminati . Who knows whether it goes even deeper <| sep |> As a German , I think I have some experience with walls . <| sep |> Two things Your argument in no way addresses the fact that there has been real , tangible progress on making the Chinese economy more energy efficient and limiting emissions . Those investments are real look at the impact of China on the solar , wind and nuclear markets . Look at the pressure and shutting down of companies that fail to adhere to regulations . Look at the introduction of new regulations . Look at them giving new expanded enforcement powers to watchdogs , eliminating areas where unclear responsibility made enforcement iffy . That shit is undeniable . But while we ' re on corruptionWhile it ' s still a huge problem , corruption has decreased massively leaving it still at a high level , but hey , progress ! and it ' s ongoing . I ' m serious . Some of our government partners won ' t even let us take them to lunch . Their boardrooms ? Fit for a king . But instead of eating caviar in them , they ' re eating instant noodles now . It used to be okay to be relatively openly corrupt let ' s go to the KTV and drink , we all leave with goody bags . Now ? It has to be under the table . Holeinthewall , cover the bill and we ' ll make things happen winkwink . And the reason ? Because they ' re scared of getting caught . Even people from Xi ' s own faction I know several of them , and most won ' t do anything that would get them caught . Seriously . Ask anybody who works with stateowned companies or government agencies . Maybe oil and gas are the last ones that are still more freewheeling even in the shipping industries , telecoms , chemical industries , etc , the campaigns have massive curtailed giftgiving and favors . Friends whose parents who work at those stateowned companies ? Their houses used to be full of expensive gifts . Their alcohol cabinet could buy a luxury car or two . Now ? Their fathers bitch about not being able to enjoy a night out or even find a good mistress because their phones might be bugged , and if they buy gifts for an extra girl , they ' ll get pegged for having extra income . There ' s still corruption , especially in sectors that haven ' t experienced the crackdowns yet , but that ' s how China rolls the hammer will come down eventually . Example It started coming down in the telecoms industry this past year our bosses in America lost their shit because the CEO of one of our partners , China Telecom , got nabbed and bagged for corruption . I mean that literally he didn ' t show up to work , and a notice was put out that he was under investigation . They were worried that it meant our partner was corrupt , and our deals might be under scrutiny but no , the corruption would be related to China Unicom one of the other two big telcoms companies , where he was in power for like a decade . Basically , they transferred him while they collected evidence once he ' s at the new company , they can collect evidence without interference at the old one . It ' s always gradual reforms and innocent looking transfers looks like normal shakeups . It ' s actually to remove people from their alliespower base and minimize their ability to protect each other . Then , after a few months to a year , they drop the hammer and arrest everyone they could collect enough evidence to bag . Rinse and repeat . And that ' s for bigwigs with political power and influence little guys just get bagged without a second thought . Hundreds of thousands of them already have . That scares the shit out of them .