Cory Doctorow on Nostr: But when they considered the social graph of those defenestrated officials, they ...
But when they considered the social graph of those defenestrated officials, they found that they came from blocs that were rivals of Xi Jinping and his circle, while officials who were loyal to Xi Jinping's were spared, even when they were corrupt.
In other words, Xi Jinping's anticorruption efforts targeted genuinely corrupt officials - but only if they supported Xi's rivals.
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