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I got the sense that they did try to put in that minimum but misjudged how high the bar would be. They sent in their "we hired enough people so give us the money" message, but then (unexpected, I suspect) scrutiny by some civil servants revealed that they hadn't hired enough.

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Yeah, I guess what the article describes seems shockingly incompetent. That's what I'm struggling with. The feeling that if they were really trying to a do a fraud they would have gotten closer to succeeding. But what the article describes seems like what would be in a satirical movie. I mean, I know multinational corporations have their moments, but this seems so beyond just average incompetence.

I don’t know anything about the leadership but it makes me wonder if they’re used to a certain grift-effort level in China and they weren’t adjusting to the slightly higher grift-threshold in the US.

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