Party officials and police worked to protect the slavers and stop the rescue of slaves from out of the province.

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    Party officials and police worked to protect the slavers…

    Seems like local government. Right?

    Concealed camera revealed that the local police refused to take action to rescue the slaves. Later the reporters were allowed into the illegal brickyards with the company of the local police. Concealed camera showed the police keeping them from rescuing children who were not from Henan which showed obvious local government protection for the illegal brickyards.

    As the scandal received immediate media attention, it also caught the eyes of the major party and state leaders, including CCP General Secretary Hu Jintao and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Governor Yu Youjun of Shanxi province offered an unprecedented self-criticism, took responsibility, and tendered his resignation on 30 August. He was replaced by Meng Xuenong, an official who had been sacked as Beijing mayor after the SARS outbreak.[8]

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        Government is government

        There’s different levels of government, with people working at different priorities. Even though is a one party system, provinces and local government have kinda independent approaches to govern. For a local officer having slaves could make sense for personal purposes, short term monetary wins, or showing its projects finish faster and cheaper. But for a higher level officer than kind of things wouldn’t make sense, can’t be big enough to give them a profit, without blowing on their face first. They already control a pseudo slave market, that is stable and accepted, with little resistance.

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        11 hours ago

        …no? From my perspective, that’s like saying:

        Democrats and police worked to protect the slavers and stop the rescue of slaves from out of the province.

        When it was really the city, or at most state-level government getting in trouble. I know China isn’t federalized to the extend the US is, and it’s technically true since all govt is CCP, but still.

        It sounds like you are implicating national officials when there’s no mention in the source.

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          …no? It sounds like I’m implicating party officials, which is literally the wording I used.

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            Yeah. Exactly

            I’m bristling at this because it’s exactly what Trump does here. Some local official screws up or does something bad, and it’s blown up on Twitter and generalized to all “Democrats.”