10 Unbelievable Things You Can Only Buy in China

10. Strawmen

If you commit a crime, but you’re a wealthy man and you don’t want to spend some years behind the bars, there is a solution for you. You can hire the man needing money, for example, to pay off debts. Such people take your fall and serve your prison term. It’s a common practice in China and there are even professional men of straw. If you buy somebody’s freedom, it can be considered a kind of slavery. This creates the atmosphere of permissiveness around the rich Chinese. Corrupted officials don’t pay attention to this problem.

It’s sad, but we can’t save poor turtles dangling inside the keychains. Of course, we can start signing the petition to the United Nations directly below this post.

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