Ung argues that a lot of western scholars who write about china, including academic authors have gotten their analysis at least partially wrong. China basically incentivized away those forms of corruption, but allowed the steroid form of corruption which tends to operate behind closed doors. Ung: In one professional letter describing my work, it was said that this person has the nerves to challenge luminaries in the field. I think that is statement about the structural inequality in the profession.
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.