> I think china views the concept of separation of companies, the government, and the military as a western notion. "China" views it that way. All 1.4 billion

> I think china views the concept of separation of companies, the government, and the military as a western notion. "China" views it that way. All 1.4 billion chinese do? > The ecosystem is fundamentally different from in the US This is simply not true. The history of US began as a government created to protect US business interests. The first major act of congress was a tariff to protect american companies. Every war we fought against the native americans, chinese, middle easterners, south americans, mexicans, etc were to further the interests of US companies. Whether you are talking about railroad companies in the 1800s or US oil companies in the 20th century. Maybe you might want to read up on where the term banana republics came from? > and western observers dont seem to be aware of this. Actually western observers are aware of it because it was the "west" which helped china industrialize. Do you want to know what country china modeled itself after to modernize its economy? The 1800s US. Which is the modeled followed by south korea, japan and taiwan as well. Pretty much every major world economy works the same exact way - collusion between state + companies + military. The only difference between US and china is that the US is the inheritor of the european colonial word order and hence is leading the "western/white" bloc. China has no bloc ( at least yet ) so is going alone at it. The separation of companies, government and military is a western notion - one that no western power practices. Which wasn't lost on the chinese, south koreans, japanese, taiwanese, etc.