I swear unanimous appreciation of china was a pretty common sentiment and now I'm consistently seeing upbeared comments about how china isn't and never was a socialist state, and how actually their use of markets is as bad if not worse than america. What's going on? IDK what to think or what side I'm on here but it just seems like opinions fundamentally changed so quickly, it's weird.
The difference between the USA and the PRC isn’t so much in the existence of capital or landlords or anything, but rather the responsiveness of the governance.
For instance, regarding Shenzhen, we’re seeing it look to Singapore’s public housing approach.
Things will slide so long as it moves in the right direction. A society broadly responsive to people’s needs is, at the present point in time, good enough for me.
I think one of the biggest differences for better or worse is the proximity to the revolution. It’s still within living memory so people know what happens when governments don’t care for people and work to provide for them, but it’s close enough the government is probably too paranoid and cracks the censorship whip too often. The biggest fault of the US is it’s inability to see itself in the wider context of the world and learn from others.