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Strange as it is, centrally planned economies are kicking the West's arse right now. We're busy electing far right faux populists (like Italy yesterday) and gi

• zavi 9y ago
  China is a hyper-capitalist country; referring to it as a centrally planned economy is intellectually dishonest.
• adventured 9y ago
  Not even remotely close. Let's examine the countries in question anyway. Liberal economies: US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, Spain, Japan, Italy, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Portugal, Switzerland, Israel, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Iceland, Taiwan, Austria Planned or otherwise heavily state controlled: China, North Korea, Cuba, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Sudan, Angola, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Egypt, Burma, Cambodia, Pakistan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Laos, Sierra Leone, Liberia Who doesn't love self-explanatory lists? And speaking of giving money to the rich. China has the highest real inequality of any nation that has ever existed in world history. They have half a billion people living on less than $10 per day, and a quarter of a billion people living on less than $3 per day, while they have over 600 billionaires, including 100 billionaires in their parliament: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/02/chinas-parliament-has-about-100-billionaires-according-to-data-from-the-hurun-report.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/02/chinas-parliament-has-about-...
• koheripbal 9y ago
  I wouldn't be surprised if countries like Russia and China are surreptitiously inciting partisanship in the west.