• @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    Since his reign began in 2012, Xi Jinping’s endless purges have removed millions of officials — from top-ranked Communist Party “tigers” down to lowly bureaucratic “flies,” to use Xi’s evocative terminology.

    Millions of officials? This must be a typo?

    • @CaptainPedantic
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      191 year ago

      I mean, there are 2.8 million civilians in the United States civil service. I’d imagine a country with 4 times the population would have a few more than that.