by In my view, the Chinese economy remains at a structural crossroads. The state and state enterprises continue to dominate the economy in investment, employment and production. That means that foreign capital, domestic private capital and market forces do not hold sway, even though they have been increasing in weight and power over the last 30 years.My view is controversial in Marxist circles. The vast majority of Marxist economists and ‘experts’ on Marx’s ‘theory of the state’ reckon that China is capitalist or ‘state capitalist’. But for me, the class nature of the Chinese state remains open. All I would add at this point is to remind readers of the data that I published in a past post on the sheer weight of the public sector and public assets in the Chinese economy.… The high ratio
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In my view, the Chinese economy remains at a structural crossroads. The state and state enterprises continue to dominate the economy in investment, employment and production. That means that foreign capital, domestic private capital and market forces do not hold sway, even though they have been increasing in weight and power over the last 30 years.
My view is controversial in Marxist circles. The vast majority of Marxist economists and ‘experts’ on Marx’s ‘theory of the state’ reckon that China is capitalist or ‘state capitalist’. But for me, the class nature of the Chinese state remains open.
All I would add at this point is to remind readers of the data that I published in a past post on the sheer weight of the public sector and public assets in the Chinese economy.…The high ratio of publically owned to privately owned capital is at the bottom of the US complaint against "unfair competition" by China. The argument is that state subsidies skew competition in the favor of state actors.
This means that the liberal world cannot exist side-by-side with a socialist system. Collision course.
But the post is really about a new economic theory called "trading economics." It's something everyone should become familiar with given the influence of the Chinese economy on the global economy. Roberts provides a summary.
Trading economics accords with the Chinese geopolitical strategy of trade instead of war (war viewed as the chief strategy of the US).
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