https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/china-civil-servant-public-employee-austerity-drive-economy

Lol the guardian is very concerned about the effect on China’s economy this will have

Also having officials drink and dine out less is ‘austerity’(I mean in the most pedantic definition I guess it is, but comparing it to hollowing out of social services in the west is disingenuous as fuck)