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. "Recruiting foreign military officers is nearly impossible. "Paying their bribes was an example of long-term thinking that was extraordinary for us," said a former senior counterintelligence official.
But this was not done once, and wasn’t done just in the ," recalled a current Capitol Hill staffer. It was how the CIA got "disaffected people up in the ranks. 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. The Government can now veto papers from being published on the subject of the origin of COVID-19.
"Beijing tightens grip over coronavirus research, amid US-China row on virus origin". Ai Fen’s (艾芬) report of how the situation was mishandling was censored "You Can Now Go to Jail in China for Criticizing Beijing’s Coronavirus Response" "China spent the crucial first days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak arresting people who posted about it online and threatening journalists" ( archive) Paywall skip: Terrible copy paste of some Caixin article with no sources/precise names. "Chinese scientists destroyed proof of virus in December". (paywall) "In Depth: How Early Signs of a SARS-Like Virus Were Spotted, Spread, and Throttled" ( archive) "李文亮所在医院为何医护人员伤亡惨重?" (Why did Li Wenliang’s hospital suffer heavy casualties?) Highlight positive about China’s culture outside of its shitty government, such as food and The best Chinese traditional instrumental music albums 中国传统器乐音乐. Serve as a place where people can post interesting related stuff in the issues: see also: I want to take my chances and make a shitpost in cirosantilli/china-dictatorship (屎帖子) Just quickly browse the pictures with Ctrl + F "Figure" and have fun. Or more realistically get added to the GitHub gov-takedowns hall of fame.īe a fun and sometimes silly source of Chinese mostly anti-CCP culture like a better Unencyclopedia / Encyclopedia Dramatica without the stupid stereotype jokes. Serve as a censorship bomb to block GitHub in China: Screen name keyword attack to destroy the Great Firewall (GFW, 防火长城) and therefore the CCP. Allow copy pasting links to answers to questions/comments that have been posted a million times before by Wumao (五毛), mostly under: FAQ (常见问答集).