Comment by curio_Pol_curio

There's an interesting paradox hiding in plain sight here: Xi imported the anticorruption strat from Singapore, so superficially, PH below is correct.

Since SG has the opposite problem from China: ((low) gov corruption XOR (low) social trust).

The paradox is that the strat will have wildly different failure modes in SG vs CN or JP (all are aware of this!)

Note also that SG is consistently ranked in the top 10 together with the Nordics+NZ+IE+CH in spite of this failure mode..

My informed opinion is that LDP+loyalist-bureaucrats have been shipping and failing the same strat for years-- LDP dominance is the tell. Any critique of Xi's policy can be backed with JP data. Prediction: Xi will succeed if and only if CPC fall (or do the ship-of-theseus thing)

https://archive.ph/hsTzy

https://www.fairobserver.com/world-news/japans-new-ldp-scand...

Keywords (actual jargon)

天下り (fox->human) 忖度 族議員 行政指導