The difference is that the worst that can happen to Zuck et al is having their company split up and paying more in taxes.
Ma on the other hand could well end up getting Epsteined.
Ma on the other hand could well end up getting Epsteined.
One who think that secrets can coerce people, is treating the owners of the secrets as passive; which were never the behavior pattern of the powerful.
One who rises to the top, practices control and manipulate over others. Not the opposite.
I'm sure it mainly came from rampant insider trading.
Regular corruption is fine in the West though, it's a victimless crime. For people who matter anyway, not the peasants who have to drink drilling oil fluid.
The point is that in the West there are clear and mostly unchanging rules that everyone knows.
In China not so much. Today you're the richest man in China, tomorrow you're an enemy of the people, next week you have tragically fallen to your death taking a selfie from a ladder. All while doing the same thing everyone else in your wealth bracket does.
These are not in the same ethical ballpark, and one doesn't have to be a US nationalist to recognize this.
If China was so great the Children of the US rich would go there to study. Instead they either stay in the US, or go to Europe/the Anglosphere if they want to be more cosmopolitan.
The reverse however is very true.