Corruption part is awfully mainstream it is only baseless speculation with no proof to back it up with what so ever.Let’s not go off topic y’all. I remember the corruption part was actually discussed before in a different thread a long time ago. TLDR: Xi’s military reforms stopped and rooted it out. If you want to know more about it, I’m sure someone here who is much more knowledgeable than me can correct that old view. There are a lot of things on this forum that contradict and disprove the mainstream perspective of the Chinese military.
So far the PLA isn't anything special when comparing them to Russia and US, It's hard to look for corruption and may not even be the way we interpret it.
The Western and European still behave like it's the same PLA back during cold war.