Ong grew up in singapore, a poor country with no significant natural resources. Her family was ethnically chinese; she didn't grow up thinking she'd become a political scientist. Why has china's economy prospered so much despite such high levels of corruption? The short answer is that it has to do with the type of corruption that came to dominate inte economy.
The political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang argues that different forms of government create different styles of corruption. The U.S. and China have more in common than we’d like to admit — but Russia is a different story, which could explain its willingness to invade Ukraine.