Russia: Vladimir Putin signs law allowing him to rule till 2036 (rating, economic)
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One is increasing a nation's declining population.
In the post-colonial era, any nation's population counts for its importance on the world stage. Russia's population is shrinking steadily because so many of its people are leaving for other countries.
The largest number of migrants resided in the United States of America, which hosted 51 million migrants in 2019, or around 19 per cent of the world’s total. The second and third largest countries of destination were Germany and Saudi Arabia, hosting around 13 million migrants each, followed by the Russian Federation (12 million), and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (10 million).
If you actually believe that corruption that is rampant among members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), especially in positions of power, is because they have been manipulated to become so by the CIA, you have truly lost your mind.
To be fair, I do not believe that you actually believe that.
The anger in Beijing wasn’t just because of the penetration by the CIA but because of what it exposed about the degree of corruption in China. When the CIA recruits an asset, the further this asset rises within a county’s power structure, the better. During the Cold War it had been hard to guarantee the rise of the CIA’s Soviet agents; the very factors that made them vulnerable to recruitment—greed, ideology, blackmailable habits, and ego—often impeded their career prospects. And there was only so much that money could buy in the Soviet Union, especially with no sign of where it had come from.
But in the newly rich China of the 2000s, dirty money was flowing freely. The average income remained under 2,000 yuan a month (approximately $240 at contemporary exchange rates), but officials’ informal earnings vastly exceeded their formal salaries. An official who wasn’t participating in corruption was deemed a fool or a risk by his colleagues. Cash could buy anything, including careers, and the CIA had plenty of it.
Over the course of their investigation into the CIA’s China-based agent network, Chinese officials learned that the agency was secretly paying the “promotion fees” —in other words, the bribes—regularly required to rise up within the Chinese bureaucracy, according to four current and former officials. It was how the CIA got “disaffected people up in the ranks. But this was not done once, and wasn’t done just in the [Chinese military],” recalled a current Capitol Hill staffer. “Paying their bribes was an example of long-term thinking that was extraordinary for us,” said a former senior counterintelligence official. “Recruiting foreign military officers is nearly impossible. It was a way to exploit the corruption to our advantage.” At the time, “promotion fees” sometimes ran into the millions of dollars, according to a former senior CIA official: “It was quite amazing the level of corruption that was going on.” The compensation sometimes included paying tuition and board for children studying at expensive foreign universities, according to another CIA officer.
Corruption was increasingly seen as the chief threat to the regime at home; as then-Party Secretary Hu Jintao told the Party Congress in 2012, “If we fail to handle this issue well, it could … even cause the collapse of the party and the fall of the state,” he said. Even in China’s heavily controlled media environment, corruption scandals were breaking daily, tainting the image of the CCP among the Chinese people. Party corruption was becoming a public problem, acknowledged by the CCP leadership itself.
The US needs more Americans going into STEM and needs more immigration of technical workers, whether that's under existing H1B or a reformed system.
A Chinese student comes to the USA, works at a technological company learning everything the company can give him.
Then, he gets a call from Shenzhen.
-Do you live with roommates in Silicon Valley and pay $2,000 for a room? Does any girl want to date you?
-You can be a senior engineer at our new company. I'll send you photos of a model who is very excited to meet a geek like you.
If you actually believe that corruption that is rampant among members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), especially in positions of power, is because they have been manipulated to become so by the CIA, you have truly lost your mind.
To be fair, I do not believe that you actually believe that.
If you actually believe that corruption that is rampant among members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), especially in positions of power, is because they have been manipulated to become so by the CIA, you have truly lost your mind.
To be fair, I do not believe that you actually believe that.
The anger in Beijing wasn’t just because of the penetration by the CIA but because of what it exposed about the degree of corruption in China. When the CIA recruits an asset, the further this asset rises within a county’s power structure, the better. During the Cold War it had been hard to guarantee the rise of the CIA’s Soviet agents; the very factors that made them vulnerable to recruitment—greed, ideology, blackmailable habits, and ego—often impeded their career prospects. And there was only so much that money could buy in the Soviet Union, especially with no sign of where it had come from.
But in the newly rich China of the 2000s, dirty money was flowing freely. The average income remained under 2,000 yuan a month (approximately $240 at contemporary exchange rates), but officials’ informal earnings vastly exceeded their formal salaries. An official who wasn’t participating in corruption was deemed a fool or a risk by his colleagues. Cash could buy anything, including careers, and the CIA had plenty of it.
Over the course of their investigation into the CIA’s China-based agent network, Chinese officials learned that the agency was secretly paying the “promotion fees” —in other words, the bribes—regularly required to rise up within the Chinese bureaucracy, according to four current and former officials. It was how the CIA got “disaffected people up in the ranks. But this was not done once, and wasn’t done just in the [Chinese military],” recalled a current Capitol Hill staffer. “Paying their bribes was an example of long-term thinking that was extraordinary for us,” said a former senior counterintelligence official. “Recruiting foreign military officers is nearly impossible. It was a way to exploit the corruption to our advantage.” At the time, “promotion fees” sometimes ran into the millions of dollars, according to a former senior CIA official: “It was quite amazing the level of corruption that was going on.” The compensation sometimes included paying tuition and board for children studying at expensive foreign universities, according to another CIA officer.
Corruption was increasingly seen as the chief threat to the regime at home; as then-Party Secretary Hu Jintao told the Party Congress in 2012, “If we fail to handle this issue well, it could … even cause the collapse of the party and the fall of the state,” he said. Even in China’s heavily controlled media environment, corruption scandals were breaking daily, tainting the image of the CCP among the Chinese people. Party corruption was becoming a public problem, acknowledged by the CCP leadership itself.
A Chinese student comes to the USA, works at a technological company learning everything the company can give him.
Then, he gets a call from Shenzhen.
-Do you live with roommates in Silicon Valley and pay $2,000 for a room? Does any girl want to date you?
-You can be a senior engineer at our new company. I'll send you photos of a model who is very excited to meet a geek like you.
You watched too many movies.
Very few educated men are interested in arranged marriage. And prostitutes are easy to find anywhere.
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