> the country does have the advantage of being run like a corporation This thinking has been used to "justify" many totalitarian regimes and is almost universa

> the country does have the advantage of being run like a corporation This thinking has been used to "justify" many totalitarian regimes and is almost universally wrong (trans on time, etc). It turns out that establishing property rights, workers rights, class mobility, democratic institutions where people can rightfully petition their government, etc gets results. For example, in the West we had things like the EPA and other agencies so we didn't have this problem. Why does your ultra-efficient Chinese "corporation" not have these things yet? They're literally decades late and this small token act (Just shutting down plants literally in the city limits) looks more like the corrupt face-saving moves that define the Chinese communist party. Not to mention, that a lot of top-down decrees in China look good on paper, but end up being implemented by corrupt local governments. Yes, its impressive the CCP can say "Built a city here by next year," but its done with massive building code violations, cheap concrete, and scary safety and pollution violations. A lot of these cities are falling apart only a few years after being built or are just one moderate earthquake away from disaster.