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jfax | 11 months ago

Except China actually keeps their ultra wealthy in line.

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tharne|11 months ago

I would argue that the CCP and the Maga crew employ a handful of similar tactics against the ultra wealthy in their respective countries. If you play ball and kiss the ring, things generally go ok for you. If you criticize them publicly or loudly, they do their best to make you wish you hadn't.

oytis|11 months ago

Cause ultra-wealthy are not the top of Chinese society? In a socialist society the wealthy are only wealthy by Party's grace - should they decide to revert Deng Xiaoping reforms, and all their wealth will evaporate, and they will be lucky if not with their owners.

The real elites in China are CCP officials - no one can keep them in line, in any case no one keep in line Xi Jinping himself.