[baybal2]

Hsi Chinping bought his degree paper from a ghostwriter, and barely showed for classes.

A practice deemed "almost" acceptable in the mainland among elites. People tell "for somebody already so high rank, merely buying a university degree is not really cheating"

I once had an argument over this 9 years ago with Chinese peers. The conversation came to "Maybe, if he was given a degree, and job even without a ghostwriter, then it may have been said he jumped the line."

It's problem with these people who genuinely believe that rank, and status is a license to violate things, and that is the reason to get it.

Out of all Westernised mainlanders exposed to overseas, or even out of the few who spent some years abroad, almost nobody gets past the superficial in understanding the world outside China. They are really a minority, among the minority.

[visarga]

> It's problem with these people who genuinely believe that rank, and status is a license to violate things, and that is the reason to get it.

If you watch `donghua` (Chinese anime) you can see the same logic all around. Status is a license to violate things. It's funny how pervasive it is.

[trasz]

So your claim is that Xi is only barely better educated than every republican US president since the nineties?

[qwytw]

TIL that George Bush is "the only U.S. president to have earned an MBA", I'm not sure if that's better or worse than purchasing a BSc in Chemistry, though.

[financetechbro]

Why would you want all US presidents to have an MBA? Is the US a business or something