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2021-01-02 China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese Industrial Kommissar's needed, must have native level English fluency
[National Review] The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has re-awoken to a profound truth: Rich, secure capitalists are the natural enemies of authoritarian regimes. In a hybrid autocratic-capitalist model, capitalism is the means to generate wealth, but power is the end goal. Successful capitalists naturally begin to demand that their personal and property rights be protected from authoritarian fiat. Capital in the hands of entrepreneurs is a political resource; it poses a threat to the implementation of centralized plans.

Realizing this, the CCP has begun to assert control over the private sector by "installing . . . Party officials inside private firms" and having state-backed firms invest in private enterprises. In the absence of civil rights or an independent judiciary, "private" companies have no real independence from the government in China. Dissent and demands for civil rights are a threat to the regime and will be crushed.

China’s shift from encouraging external investment and internal market competition toward treating capitalism as a threat has an obvious historical precedent. From 1921—1928, the Soviet Union instituted a policy of economic liberalization, which allowed for the privatization of agriculture, retail trade, and light industry. This partial and temporary return to a controlled and limited capitalism, known as the New Economic Policy (NEP), saved the Soviet economy from collapse and enabled Russia to modernize. But, in 1928, Stalin suddenly reversed course: He collectivized agriculture and liquidated the most prosperous farmers, thereby necessitating the frequent resort to grain imports, notably from the United States.
Political loyalty, rather than innovation, entrepreneurship, and profit. "This time we'll do it right" comes to mind
Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-02 09:05|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
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#1 ...the CCP has begun to assert control over the private sector by "installing . . . Party officials inside private firms" and having state-backed firms invest in private enterprises.

This differs from US based corporate governmental representatives/liaisons and directed foundation contributions how again ?
Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-02 09:25||   2021-01-02 09:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Go on, some of you, keep making fun of Atlas Shrugged...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-01-02 09:37||   2021-01-02 09:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Who is John Galt?
Posted by Clem 2021-01-02 09:44||   2021-01-02 09:44|| Front Page Top

#4 National Review? Every word they've written in the last four years has been in service to a lie, including "an" and "the."
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-01-02 10:31||   2021-01-02 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by Jiling Gravitch9209 v 2021-01-02 10:36||   2021-01-02 10:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Within 20 years, China will be the financial capital of the world. And Grandma Killer Cuomo won't have to worry about cooking breakfast for people to come back to Nueva York.
Posted by Clem 2021-01-02 10:43||   2021-01-02 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Within 20 years, China will be the financial capital of the world

A year ago nobody heard of COVID. 20 years is a long time...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-01-02 11:42||   2021-01-02 11:42|| Front Page Top

#8 "Within 20 years...."

I suppose 'within' could mean next year or in 2029, but in due time as the USA commits suicide.
Posted by Clem 2021-01-02 12:03||   2021-01-02 12:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Within 20 years, China will be the financial capital of the world

Good they can move the UN to Shanghai
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-01-02 15:01||   2021-01-02 15:01|| Front Page Top

#10  Within 20 years, China will be the financial capital of the world

Despite discussions currently going on with Europe, the business world continues disconnecting financially from China because they have proved themselves dangerous to the health and welfare of their customers. It seems to me more likely that in twenty years China will be teetering on collapse as each young worker struggles to support his elderly parents and both sets of even more elderly grandparents while the empty cities built on spec over the last few years crumble into dust, not one apartment in a hundred ever lived in.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-01-02 15:14||   2021-01-02 15:14|| Front Page Top

#11 As we continue to fracture, squabble over socialism, hide our timid youth and write meaningless paper called the dollar, the Chinese will discover that the money is drying up, the industrial demand we exported to them is drying up from their shoddy long term quality control problems, and competition for the agriculture they are trying to buy up will come from local resistance who see the Irish potato famine parallel here. They have over-milked the dairy and now have revealed their ownership of the political swamp in DC, through overt theft of votes and foreign money in our elections. The Middle Kingdom isn't the 21st century wonder, just smart tyrants who have shown their hand. At least I hope so if my grandchildren will have a chance to build a second Republic!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-01-02 18:51||   2021-01-02 18:51|| Front Page Top

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