A former executive at Yoozoo Games was sentenced to death on Friday in the 2020 poisoning of the founder of the high-profile Chinese gaming company, which has links to Game of Thrones and the new Netflix series, “The Three-Body Problem.”

Xu Yao poisoned the food of company founder Lin Qi in December 2020 because of a dispute over the running of the business, the Shanghai First Intermediate People’s Court said. The Hollywood Reporter, citing local media, reported at the time Lin was allegedly sickened by a cup of poisoned pu-erh tea.

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    7 months ago

    Nah I love what they’ve been doing to CEOs/billionaires over there. The irony is that for half a century our greedy capitalists have been pumping so much capital into China to take advantage of cheap, plentiful labor that they’re the dominant global superpower now and will be a real threat to the offspring of said greedy fuckstick capitalists.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t think that’s a reason to praise the PRC’s dictatorship. And suggesting they aren’t also greedy capitalists just because they call themselves communists is about as silly as saying the DPRK is democratic because it has that word in its name. Xi Jinping has a net worth of over a billion dollars. Does that sound like the achievement of a communist to you?

      https://finty.com/us/net-worth/xi-jinping/

      I don’t support them one bit. I certainly don’t support capital punishment.

      I just like seeing CEOs get their due.

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      If you think for a second they’re actually doing anything to these people, I have the deed to a bridge in Baltimore I want to sell you