In general Chinese correctly recognise the crucial role government can play in economic performance. The cynical crony capitalist neoliberalised west has largely forgotten this...because bankers and capital have come to own the narrative and their 'democratic' governments and the resultant crony capitalism is not delivering economic improvement for most people. The Libertarian ideology tragically plays into the hands of crony capitalism. #1255763

Most people will tolerate corruption where it serves them. The dominant nations of the world enjoy hegemony over the less powerful nations and extract wealth and resources from the less powerful. This is the reality of imperialism. The dominant nations use their power to enrich themselves and there tends to be less corruption within those nations while the 'developing' nations tend to suffer from more corruption internally. It is very difficult for citizens of weak nations where the government is internally corrupt. The citizens of the wealthy nations are mostly prepared to turn a blind eye to the way their governments extract wealth from less powerful and dominant nations because those citizens benefit from that hegemony. Many would even deny they benefit from the extraordinary privilege enjoyed by their globally dominant nation states citizenship. Competition for resources and territory is embedded in our DNA and the notion of corruption is a layer of ethical coding/sophistry overlaying the deeper drives of our DNA.

Setting aside the quoted hilarious tautology; most of what you wrote is an overgeneralisation. Modern "government" lumps together lots of different organizations, and part of the neverending effort of participating in politics as a libertarian, rather than just darthing out into the wilderness, is to privatise or "factor apart" the monolithic structures into ones that are both less mutually dependent and easier for individuals to navigate.