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jrntn
Trump and his friends aren't going free because the US punishment is too light, they're going free because they have absolute power. Increasing the punishment to the death penalty would do nothing to address that problem
VibratingNipples
ok but what about organs harvesting?
HeHeHebieJeebies
remind me again how ethnic cleansing fits into this?
TsubakiTragic
We don't look to China for leadership. We look to China for consistency. We look to the USA to see what the future will be if we don't look to China.
BruceMane
death Penalty is still barbaric and doesnt make kids safer
cousteau
Abolished in the EU since the nineties and I think it should be like that in the rest of the world.
Scezumin
i'm with you on the first half, but what's the rationale for the second?
duktayp
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asticknstone
Are they also allowed to pull a Maduro and grab criminals of their laws from other countries???
whatsisname
There is still no place for the death penalty in a civilized society. No matter the crime.
ProphetofEntropy
hey its not like the chinese communist party is some sort of authoritarian government. its a good thing!/s
NeonKitsune
And we still shouldn't look to China for leadership, given how easy it is for a government to use criminal courts as a shield for simply getting rid of undesirable people. Are we not paying attention to what's happening in the US?
Grimlinnan
Is that a direct threat to Trumps life?
thotterpop
We can all hope it's an inevitability
GoodEarthBetweenMyToes
No, it is a signal of their contempt for him, in advance of the meeting.
MythIncarnate
It's the fair, expected and legal consequences of his own actions.
VagrantKoba
Any country that does death sentences for any crime is detestable (though I do think scammers and thieves sometimes deserve it) China, especially doing it is not a good thing.
Rovit82
China less asshole than USA??? The fuck
Racealistic
The real asshoe was the America we made along the way.
Navrodel
That headline's the real takeaway. With Trump fucking over American Foreign Relations for the past decade, there's a power vacuum looming where US influence used to be.
China keeps pointing to themselves as the obvious replacement for global leadership.
No one's really happy about it.
ProphetofEntropy
look at what china has been doing, building a modern force projection military like the US has, the 9 dash line, building islands only to put air bases on them. only a moron would look at china and not see its teeth.
anononanonanona
A crime almost impossible to truly prove gets execution as its penalty? Celebrating this makes you a fucking moron. Actually celebrating the death penalty in any case does that but this is especially egregious. This is a tool give false legitimacy to disappearing people, that's all.
hotaru251
this isnt new.
This has been how China punished it for nearly a decade.
https://english.court.gov.cn/2023-05/26/c_890108.htm
OperatorWay
Any other sources confirm?
Feb. 2, 2026 : https://www.mexc.com/news/635211
> "...Claims circulating on social media that China has declared child molestation punishable by death have sparked widespread international attention and debate.
The reports, which gained traction online, were cited by the X account of Coinvo and subsequently re-quoted...
However, officials in China have not publicly announced a blanket new law stating that all cases of child molestation are now punishable by death..."
TheDeadliestPool
Google gave me few result over the years. Oldest was from 2019, but the article was behind a paywall
Hippopotamuswhale
Well they already murder millions without them doing anything else than being other etnicity. They have death camps for people who belong to "wrong religion". I never cheer for china on anything because I know, they are like russians are. They just hide it better. if china gets more power, they will start to act more like DICKtatorship(which they already do, just acting also normal)
zHurk777
china also banned hidden door handles on cars such as the type found on teslas.
johnblood616
This is not good. Most people are molested by family and close friends. A kid is less likely to report their dad or uncle if they think dad or uncle is going to be killed.
Necrothean
China kills Uyghurs simply for existing as a group so maybe this isn't the "win" you think it is and, instead, it's just one more thing they can accuse anyone of without proof before killing them?
And Rohingya. And Tibetans. I mean, pretty much if you're not a mainland Chinese that can trace their heritage to the Ching dynasty while also revering Mao and his followers as saviors, you're a walking target of genocide.
mephiston
This will potentially lead to more child molesters killing their victims, because it would leave less people to testify and report.
backrideup9
Will there be a trial beforehand or will they just kidnap people and say they were guilty?
18booma
Why do you assume that the Chinese state are as barbaric as ICE? They have an evidence-based legal system that presumes innocence and has a higher appeals process. But I can understand why Americans are confused. China investigates and prosecutes suspects. They don't make them president.
Scahrossar
Yeah, you'd need elections to do that.
crateo
This is propaganda talking, honestly. China government system has been a bureaucracy for millenia, with different names xD. There is a civil code and normal law system.
And of course, you have the phony trials to remove political enemies, like in the US.
xeoxion
They should be hung. Hung by a noose tied around their dick and balls and pull them up off the floor till they hanging.
Might takes about 3 days but that’s how you hang pedos
stukajr
A requisite grammar Nazi notification - Hung a coat, hanged a man... a hanged (erotically asphyxiated) man turned out to be hung. Hanged by cock and balls is a unique spin and twist on things, though.
BarryTheCyborg
What about women pedos?
Sh1tMovieGroup
tits? That's gotta be painful... least, those videos on my friends computer made it look so...
Itry2dostuff
Sit on a cactus?
TheMoonBnuuy
I want you to know that it wasn't me, but don't be surprised if you get one of these:
mycatwontletmeclosemybedroomdoor
Y'all are real quick to put the land of "one-child" and infanticide on a pedestal about protecting children.
NaughtButOne
You mean the policy they abandoned over a decade ago, and a crime that's always been punishable by severe criminal sentences but was largely done in secret and through black markets where the government has limited ability to police a country of over a billion people?
Scahrossar
Seriously, regardless if this is true, are we going to pretend China is good now? There's no evidence that mass child rape has happened there but they're much better at copntroling information, no freedom of the press anmd all that. Are we also conveniently forgetting stuff like the Uyghurs?
ProgeriaProstitutes
In terms of foreign policy I take China over the US.
Scahrossar
They're both shit. China just isn't (overtly) meddling in your backyard.
DdCno1
You must not be living close to China or Russia.
ProgeriaProstitutes
You don't even need to live close to the US to get a bomb dropped on you
DdCno1
"But what about America..."
ProgeriaProstitutes
?
Rascael
and Trump is visiting in April...
mmoser35731415
Maybe they can help us.
Grimlinnan
Maybe China gonna pull a Venezuelan snatch and bag a terrorist.
cousteau
Come on, China, pull a Maduro…
SirSpiffyDijelos
Plz China, Venezuela US
meowingintensifies
pete8772
I smell what you’re cooking.
annonymouse211
Oooooohhhhhh that would be the funniest thing EVER
Nognom
For what. China to kidnap a country leader. WHO would ever do such a thing 🫢
mymustachecallstheshots
Don't do that. Don't give me hope.
WhiskyBravo
don't give me hope
BlackHoleSon01
Fingers crossed. . .
Rodley
Sweet.
helyx
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BobaFettApproves
Docta says I need a backyotomy
Bergleton
HE HAD SEX WIT MY MAMA
BobaFettApproves
< With the smiley face. Called em over to ma place!
BobaFettApproves
When life was hard I picked up that card >
AlamoJoe1952
Arrest, indict, find Guilty, execute
stukajr
It will be like that time when the "Red Wedding" episode aired and the people who read the book were like... and the people who didn't read the book were like...
CrimeThinker
Unfortunately I think there might still be some kind of "diplomatic immunity" issue but now the US is straight up the baddies (instead of just the embarrassment of all developed nations) and so we can't even say "China is asshole" anymore.
wario37
Snatch and grab kind of eliminated “diplomatic immunity”, no? I mean, the rest of the world has DI, but I don’t think US can claim that anymore…
boobityboobityboobity
I dunno, if he died, wouldn't that present a vulnerable nation with no leader? Who's taking his place? JD?
Markuspsyches
Wouldn't be an issue of no leadership, the US has the whole "presidential line of succession" that is like 18 people long. Starts with JD then followed by cabinet officers. Might be a question of quality of their leadership, and I doubt they'd have the same pull with the MAGA masses.
KarenFromTheHOA
Showing a bigger asshole doesn't make an asshole be not an asshole
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ProphetofEntropy
its like we supposed to forget china is a totalitarian government. that changed the sentences of 2 canadians to death when we arrested that billionaire generals daughter like the US wanted. america sucks, SO DOES CHINA!
00110001001001111010000110110110011
No we aren’t supposed to forget. But we are supposed to move past that and try to find common ground to trade and do business together. We don’t have to like each other to trade and be civil. We simply have to accept that we will both follow established rules and trade equally. And we have to diversify. Europe and Asia needs resources. We need euros and dollars. We need to build LPN terminals in Fermuse, in Halifax, in Kitimat and even in Churchill MB.
Catheren
Reminder: the reason we don't press for this is because it's a REALLY easy way to dispose of "troublesome" people like reporters, protestors, and political opponents you don't much like! ACAB, and 110% they WILL bully your ass into a false confession, plant fake evidence, and WORSE because they profit off of everyone being a criminal- even when you're not one! Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
TheMoonBnuuy
Exactly
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Worse, it can be directed not just at undesireable individuals, but entire groups. There are plans by the GOP, already in motion, to expand the definition of child molestation to 'existing near a child while being a trans person' and then giving the death penalty for that.
Swedishbouldering
As if the gop needed a reason or proof to execute someone
cousteau
Y'all still have death penalty and armed goon squads that often shoot first and ask questions later, which can quite well be used in that way too… should really get rid of that crap ASAP.
Catheren
Rome wasn't built in a day and regimes don't fall overnight- we're working on it damnit!
cousteau
The EU as a whole has been free of capital punishment for almost thirty years now, just sayin'…
Catheren
crateo
The US is already there. Wake up.
cousteau
It's getting there harder.
Catheren
Kind of the point, buddy. I don't want the government to have this power- because I've seen how it will be used. This isn't a WIN, and it should NOT be celebrated. If anything I feel like these people need THERAPY- and LOTS of it. Like fuckin EONS of therapy. Are there people that can't be saved? Absolutely. But with the system as is- "beyond reasonable doubt" is 51% likely to be true. That is just not enough for me. Worthless waste of life for petty vengeance that serves no one.
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QueenOfTheFey
Yeah, as much as I hate abusers/rapists/pedos, historically, the Justice system can and does work less to stop the evil and more just as a way for the dominant socioeconomic group of a given community to remove those who either threaten their power or who they simply dont like.
Which is why Trump is president, and there are people in prison for like for smoking weed.
udmurt
Also, when the penalty is the same as for murder, the rapists might as well murder their victims so there's no witness.
Catheren
I'll tell you what I told idiots in high school- a murder will be investigated, the rape wouldn't even be reported. Statistically speaking. A murder makes it MORE likely they'll get caught. I still don't approve of "this crime gets you killed" but we DO need to do SOMETHING- BECAUSE it's not getting reported and caught. Like it or not, we're still in a rape culture: we're not teaching consent or red flags or basic sex ed in some places- we have a LOT of things to fix beyond scale of punishment
udmurt
I've read your comment, and just to make sure I understand you correctly - are you saying the argument "death penalty is a bad idea for rape because it would encourage the rapist to also murder" is invalid because murders are more likely to be investigated? Genuine question, because sometimes nuance can be difficult to interpret from a text comment. If that is what you're saying, then I'll admit I hadn't thought of that. For the record, I am against the death penalty.
Catheren
I don't think the argument that it would cause rapists to murder is invalid, being dead is still worse than dealing with the trauma for a lot of people; but I don't think it's as likely as an outcome as people are making it out to be. I honestly just believe we're at the point that if you wanted the death penalty to be the punishment you'd kill the rapist yourself because the system as is has proven, beyond any sense of reason, a victim will not see prosecution- we just get "BuT hIs FuTuRe!"
udmurt
Thanks for elaborating. Reading your comment I realized that I actually have no research to point to regarding the idea that murder becomes more likely if the punishment is death anyway. I read the argument somewhere and thought it sounded reasonable, but maybe it isn't very likely, as you say. Hard to know for sure I guess
Zeplin
Kinda reminds me of what I was told in Colombia. Kidnappers generally kill you after getting your money, because leaving a witness for a kidnapping is worse than leaving a body for a murder.
DdCno1
There is already a huge issue in China of motorists not helping people they run over or running them over again until they are dead, because if they are at fault, they are liable for healthcare costs for the rest of the victims' lives. Even bystanders fear helping, because they too might be held liable. There are horrifying videos of children lying injured in busy streets, with crowds of people and cars moving around them, ignoring their suffering entirely. China is not a place worth emulating.
casualgenderquestion2718
Someone’s never seen CPR break a rib and the provider be punished for it
DdCno1
Not a thing where I'm from (Germany). Here, you only get punished if you don't help within your best of your ability, provided you're not endangering yourself. Exception: Police officers do have to help even if they have to endanger themselves and can get sentenced if they run away, even from gunfire. When I received CPR training, they told us that breaking ribs was normal and we should not worry about it. I was the only one in the group who didn't break the "ribs" of the training dummy.
casualgenderquestion2718
It is normal, and you shouldn’t worry, and yet, as an American with proximity to the healthcare field……
TheButtInButterfly
Funny how China gets it, but US? just make them prez.
Poppypoppoppop
Funny how the Chinese didn't vote their President into office, but Americans did vote Trump into office (TWICE).
jasondeslin
Millions of mail in ballots being "challenged" combined with swing states having voter turnouts far exceeding 100% is clear evidence is fraud.
The elections were stolen by billionaires. The 1st time, they were able to skate in with lies, voter suppression, gerrymandering, throwing out mail in ballots, and minor fraud, and STILL lost the popular vote.
The last time he admitted on camera that they corrupted the voting machines, and again, voter turnout was OVER 100%.
We didn't elect him.
Poppypoppoppop
Then kick him out of office.
jasondeslin
... The election was certified. This isn't the 1st time an election has been stolen. Gore won the popular AND the electoral, but was pressured into backing out before the recounts.
The system is designed to protect those in power, and shelter them from consequence.
But by all means, if you have a fucking magic wand feel free to wave it.
Poppypoppoppop
That magic wand comes with bullets. But you know how Americans feel about using guns
jasondeslin
Yeah, because China is GREAT about fair trials and evidence...
My bet is that it's the same reason they passed that law in Florida. To call trans people pedophiles and then have a reason to kill them.
I like and respect the Chinese people, but NO government can be trusted.
Homestarmy
The downside to this is it encourages the child rapists to kill their victims because if the punish is the same, then you may as well execute your victim because they are less likely to talk and their story get out. It is a sounds good law but life is far more complicated.
TheButtInButterfly
Guess so. i just struggle to see any other option for these sick fucks
Heisanevilgenius
Yeah, zero tolerance rules never work out. I was watching a video about a woman who is on a permanent sex offender list and can't get a job or take her child to school or even go anywhere, and the reason she's on the list is because when she was 19 she had sex with a 17 year old and she didn't realize he was underage and his parents had her arrested. I think there needs to be better enforcement of sex offences but the death penalty for every offence?
whiskeywonka
Imgur is so bipolar at times. When Florida suggested this the consensus was 'lets not do that'.
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
1. That's how you make an echo chamber by making everyone agree. 2. It was specifically designed so that it can target LGBT people.
OhIfIMust
It's one of those things where I absolutely support *the idea*, but could never trust anyone to implement it effectively *and justly*.
rcgom
in reality, no, we don't want the death penalty at all. but we wish for an end to child molestation & reflexively we reach for the worst 1/
rcgom
punishments & deterrents we can imagine, it's not well reasoned but it feels good. 2/2
paullyboy1999
If I recall the Florida theory was they would try and use it against the LGBQT + since Florida is kind of like that. If I am wrong, please correct me, that may have been a different thing florida was trying to pass
cuddleskunk
It was a cluster of laws all trying to get passed at the same time...one classified public "drag" where one could be seen by children as a "Child sex crime", one added the death penalty for "child sex crimes", and one made death penalty decisions no longer require unanimity. It was a naked attempt to make being trans a capital crime. The death penalty as a whole is very questionable. It puts criminals backs to the wall, so "might as well kill" becomes default. and removes the ability to appeal.
TheMoonBnuuy
I mean look at who controls Florida. Do you really think they're going to pass a law to have themselves executed?
onepinksheep
The problem is with the way that the US tries to define child sexual assault. There's a trope about how peeing too near a school could get you put on a list, and it's not too far off. And then there's the morons on the right trying to call parents of trans kids child molesters, etc. I also think actual child molesters should be executed, monsters that they are, but I don't trust the US government to do it properly.
whiskeywonka
I agree. I do not care what thoughts you have, but when they become actions, specify those actions, I no longer care about your humanity. Along with that I feel that we need therapists who can treat people before they take that action and not have people at risk for seeking that help. We need to 'cure' it.
TheMoonBnuuy
Chairman Mao was vehemently against the death penalty and only ever allowed it in rare instances where the people demanded it.
I'm not arguing against it, just noting that that goes against the foundational principles of the CCP.
OhIfIMust
Yeah, I like the idea, but who the hell could ever be trusted with it??
TheMoonBnuuy
Mao liked the idea too but he thought brainwashing criminals would be more effective at compelling behavior than criminal execution.
pullingsixty
How is this not a death sentence? Great Leap Forward (1958–1962): A failed economic policy that resulted in a man-made famine, with estimates of 40–80 million deaths.
Cultural Revolution (1966–1976): A period of social chaos, violent purges, and political persecution, killing up to two million people.
TheMoonBnuuy
ok, so those deaths were the result of criminal prosecution and sentencing by a court?
because if not, you're playing word games... and I don't even know why. It's like you have a chip on your shoulder or something.
I'm just pointing out that Mao was against executing people for crimes because if China is making the death sentence a thing, that marks a huge precedent in their evolution as a country
seventytwospokes
Mao was responsible for tens of millions of deaths at the same time so maybe the views of dictator's mean absolutely nothing?
TheMoonBnuuy
I'm not the one who held his views as having meaning. The CCP held that view for a long time. A number of years ago a dairy company in China diluted milk and put melamine in the milk to fake out chemical protein tests and make it pass inspection. This lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of infants. The executives were sentenced to life, the people cried out for blood, and so the CCP gave it to them.
It's a long standing ideology they have governed by for decades. 1/2
TheMoonBnuuy
The fact that they have departed from this long standing ideology has potentially far reaching implications. Once a dictator gets the foot in the door on ideological change, more radical changes often follow.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
For good or ill, today's PRC has little to do with their founding principles.
TheMoonBnuuy
Oh don't get me wrong. I'm not saying they ever had principles. Mao wasn't about a lack of cruelty. He was about reeducating (i.e. brainwashing) those who broke the law, like dissidents for example. He thought it's more effective at compelling behavior than criminal execution.
Thing is, this marks a large departure from their observed ideology over the decades, which could mean more radical, more dangerous things to come in terms of domestic and foreign policy.
UsernameAlreadyTaken058
To be fair, he probably had no moral objections. He just thought it a more powerful message to "convert" former opponents to communism - most notably the former emperor. He certainly had no trouble causing people to die irrespective of guilt. As evidenced by the result of his policies.
TheMoonBnuuy
Yeah I'm not making any moral pronouncements here.
I'm just raising an eyebrow here because he set a precedent in regards to death penalty (and since intellectually dishonest people here knee jerk about that, "death penalty" is a simple term which here means "the penalty of death as prescribed for a punishment upon conviction of a crime as codified in criminal law", and it does not mean "state violence in general")
The fact that they have made a departure from long standing ideology could 1/2
TheMoonBnuuy
mean bad things for the Chinese people because it suggests there might be other, more radical changes in the future.
Furrybutnotfurry
LOL if you thought MAO of all people was against the death penalty, like WTF. Mao was a successful politician and a military strategist in a time of war, being against executing people would have iiterally been irresponsible in his social climate.
TheMoonBnuuy
He actually was. He thought that forced conversion through brainwashing makes a more impactful statement than putting people to death.
Note: "death penalty" isn't the same thing as "state violence" in general. If you'd bothered to follow the conversation you'd actually have been able to see that I've clarified this point multiple times.
1: Death penalty is a punishment prescribed by a law upon conviction of certain crimes in a court of law.
1/2
Furrybutnotfurry
That I do vaguely recall. I don't think he was against it morally, thought sometimes politically, and he managed to convert a lot of people to his cause.
TheMoonBnuuy
goddammit, I said 1/2, let me finish speaking before you interrupt. Now I'll continue.
2: The point isn't that Mao was a moral beacon of some sort, the man was a monster. But he set the ideology for the CCP and the law, mentioned in the post here... it marks a departure from that long held ideology. That departure from ideology could spell very bad things for both the Chinese people and the rest of the world via more radical changes to domestic and foreign policy.
Furrybutnotfurry
Didn't I see your first comment 3 days later lol? I'm not sure if the CCP hasn't separated from Mao's ideologies like... decades ago, possibly while Mao was still alive. Mao was an communist idealist, China is a nationalized capitalistic totalitarian state, to the point where our comments can't be posted on any Chinese websites without being deleted and possibly both our accounts being banned.
dsnowball
Which would, of course, explain all the people who were executed during the Great Leap Forward. "The People Demanded it." Estimates suggest between 2-3 million people were summarily executed then.
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Great-Leap-Forward
TheMoonBnuuy
Which would, of course, mean that you're greatly misunderstanding the argument here. The people executed as a result of the Great Leap Forward were not executed as a result of criminal prosecution and laws that prescribe the death penalty for the crimes thus prosecuted. They also were extrajudicial and carried out by local cadres. Whether Mao had anything to do with it doesn't change that it wasn't judicial, and that's what "death penalty" refers to. I chose my words very carefully, and 1/2
TheMoonBnuuy
I do not appreciate you getting snarky about something I did not say. And as I've told others who have responded similarly to you, I'm making a note of the fact that this law China has passed marks a precedent against the CCP's long held ideology, which could be a portend of further, more radical changes to come.
I'm not saying "Mao was against state violence." I'm saying he was against the death penalty, which is a punishment prescribed for crimes as prescribed bylaw.
If we expand that to 2/3
TheMoonBnuuy
all state violence, then we can't really have a discussion of "death by execution as prescribed by law for punishment of a crime one is convicted of in a court of law" without having to say "death by execution as prescribed by law for punishment of a crime one is convicted of in a court of law" every single time.
Words have meanings for a reason.
dsnowball
According to Mao's former doctor, Mao would fuck teenaged girls and invite them to bring their younger sisters over. He was often photographed with teenaged 'dancing girls' around him.
Furrybutnotfurry
Never heard of that one, honestly more suspicious how anything like this would be leaked even if it happened.
TheMoonBnuuy
That's a claim I have not heard, but it wouldn't surprise me if the CCP would cover that up.
I don't know if it's true or not, and it's not really relevant here because MAO wasn't against the death penalty for pedophiles in specific, he was against the death penalty in principle.
When the melamine milk incident happened a while back, the execs responsible were put to death because of public outcry, not because of a legal prescription of death, following the policy Mao started.
My point is 1/2
TheMoonBnuuy
that China passing a law like this marks a departure from their long standing ideology. Which could be a hint of other, more radical future changes. Getting the foot in the door, so to speak.
ProphetofEntropy
china was replacing uyghur husbands with han chinese a few years back. i get america sucks, but china isnt some moral beacon, and if you thin it is, youre as deluded as any magat.
TheMoonBnuuy
I never said China was a moral beacon. Fuck you for having a knee jerk emotional reaction instead of seeing that what I'm saying here is that this is a departure from long held ideology and that it's dangerous. I don't disagree with executing pedophiles, but I do worry that this is Xi getting his foot in the door on more drastic changes that will greatly harm the Chinese people and also the world in general given China's behavior under him.
I'll be blocking you now for intellectual dishonesty.
1eventHorizon9
If you think some party insider is gonna meet the axe you are hilariously naive. It will be execution for regular schmucks, prison for the wealthy/connected and consequence free for the inner circle. Same as it ever is.
NaughtButOne
China has been cracking down on corruption, even targeting loyalists and allies of Xi Jinping within the party. There's no particular reason to believe this will be different.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/26/china-top-ranking-general-zhang-youxia-investigation
ProphetofEntropy
if you are so corrupt you compromise china, thats what they dont tolerate anymore. they saw what that sort of shit did to russia when it invaded ukraine. they dont want that to happen to them in taiwan.
NaughtButOne
Dunno about you, but being a pedo seems awfully corrupt to me. It seems to give other people incredible leverage over you.
VegaJuniper
They're not targeting loyalists or allies, these are purges. When everyone's corrupt, corruption trials are a magnificent tool for the ruling clique.
NaughtButOne
Did you... Open the article?
"China’s military leadership is in turmoil after its most senior general – a close ally of Xi Jinping – was placed under investigation for “suspected serious violations of discipline and law”.
Zhang Youxia is the joint vice-chairperson of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the ruling body of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Second only to Xi in the military command structure, Zhang has long been seen as the Chinese president’s closest military ally."
VegaJuniper
The Guardian does not have intimate knowledge of the factions and such within the Chinese government. The regime is essentially a black box to those outside it, but the fact that he was placed under investigation would heavily indicate he wasn't such a close ally, or that he has fallen out of favor.
Look up Kremlinology. During the Cold War western intelligence would try to work out who in the Kremlin was in favor and who was not by how close to Stalin they would stand during public events.
DdCno1
Do you not understand what a purge is?
NaughtButOne
... They are targetting corrupt officials. A 'purge' in the context of a regime like China suggests getting rid of dissidents or people who are unloyal.
"They're not targeting loyalists or allies, these are purges."
This general *is* a loyalist *and* an ally of the ruling party. They *are* targetting loyalists, if those people are corrupt. The same thing people here are always saying about yes, remove Democrats who are corrupt - even if they're on your side, corrupt is corrupt.