> China for some reason is viewed as comfortably capitalist For the purposes of western companies with ties to China, they have capitalism - after all, allowin

> China for some reason is viewed as comfortably capitalist For the purposes of western companies with ties to China, they have capitalism - after all, allowing child labor in sweat shops is very capitalistic. On the other hand the state controls a majority of enterprise assets even though the number of enterprises fully owned by the state is around 30%. And they also impose their will on privately owned companies, with the market not being free. Also, don't confuse capitalism with democracy ;-)