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Originally Posted by pwalker8
In many, if not most cultures, bribery is expected.
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People in other cultures tend to know more about that of the United States than vice-versa. So if an Amazon worker, in a high-corruption country, is caught in quid pro quo bribe-taking, I'm sure they won't expect the company to be OK with it.
China is undergoing a big public anti-corruption campaign with draconian punishments given government officials when the alleged total bribe-taking amount is extremely large. No one is going to executed for business-to-business corruption like the topic of this thread, but perpetrators surely know it is against both national and international rules.
It might even be that in China the merchandisers are more likely to complain about a bribe solicitation than in some other Amazon markets, due to the national anti-corruption campaign. I wouldn't conclude, from the OP article, that amazon.cn reviews are worse than amazon.com.