No, because all the top brass in US govt and military are corrupt. Those guys were just stupid and pissed off the wrong people.
Chinese Internal Politics
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It would be different.
By first reporting the missing from public of Qin and Li, the enemy's media scored some credibility as they were carrying out their duty as the reporters. They also got the chance to attach their speculations and insinuations to the reports. They score even more points when their speculations were proved right later. You see how China was losing step by step because it did not take the initiative?
Had the Chinese authority proactively stated Qin and Li were off duty, China would have kept the upper hand. Sure the enemy would still likely stir up the "power struggle" and "CCP corruption" insinuations, but they would be following CPC's steps and they would not have those easy scores at the start.
This.
for example, look at Qin Gang holding the important post of foreign minister. That he has an illegitimate secret child with a Chinese American woman living in America compromises him to CIA blackmail and after the kidnapping of Meng wenzhou, any Chinese official in higher office with their immediate family outside of China becomes a liability.
Your suggested measure is only to create bigger rooms for imaginations therefor more ammunations to the enemy. As I said before, the moment you begin to play the western game, you already loose one way or the other.
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If you think MSM is credible on China, you’ll continue to believe so. If they can believe in Uighur genocide/slave labor I don’t see how this is all of a sudden gonna make it less credible.
Qin Gang was removed due to his alleged womanizing ways, and that's not something any system in the world can predict how a man's going to give in to his literal wang. But, I do agree with you regarding the dismissal of Gen. Li. The military promotion must be looked at and ought to be evaluated with great vigilance and care.
Not all things are like diodes. If a western media reported one thing right, you have to give them the credibility on that particular report. At the same time, you can still have doubt on their honesty and reject the lies from them. These two are not incompatible.
We cite western media all the time here, including the incidents of Qin and Li. I don't see people starting to trust the western media because of it.
How is that simple public statement of fact to play the western game?
You mentioned imaginations. Chinese do not need external input for imaginations. Even without considering the western media, Chinese public would have started speculating when there was no words from the authority on the whereabouts of these guys.
Because "making such statement before investigation is over" itself is part of western game (how things are done in the west).
Imaginations without evidence, proof and due procedure is wrong and damagining, it doesn't matter if it is from Chinese or west. Those imaginative Chinese are doing the same thing as the enemy without knowing it. Giving vague statement as you suggested is only to fuel such imaginations.
I learned a good lesson recently by watching "Babylon Berlin" and "Hitler: The Rise of Evil". The shocking thing is to see how the mass population swung left and right based on roumors or simple but artisticly crafted speeches. How large part of working class men in Nazi camp fought another large part of working class men in Communist camp before Nazi won. How there is supporters of both camps in the same family. It is no surprise that a large portion of Sturmabteilung was ex-communist supporters according to Nazi investigation after the night of longknife. It is all because imagined "truth" presented by "freedom and transparency".
My words is that mass population as a collection is pretty dumb. It can be fooled easily by crazy men or can be guided by men of reason depending on the institutional design. The western system is certainly the crazy one.
The most dangerous enemy isn't from outside, but lies inside ourselves, our over-expectation for "truth" before collecting all facts possible and digested them.
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I am not even suggesting that the authority should have explained why these guys were off duty. All I said is for China to be a bit more tactful to not give the western media the upper hand and close a venue of lies from the start. That's far from "over-expectation for 'truth'".