the mentality of Chinese people is very capitalist at local level, and also more family than individual oriented. However at the political level they seems more imperial, and abroad they tolerate the local authorities, even local criminality as long as it is not impairing business... It is a mix we have problem to understand in the West. In a way I see a similar misunderstanding between French culture considering US way. It is hard to see in france that US solidarity is more group/community driven than state driven, even if things are changing (and many disagree, in both countries).
The "policy mix" of a culture is surprising for another culture. In China "capitalism" is more popular in poling than in france and even in USA. french are more negative than people of irak about their future... Note that China may not be globally capitalist, more Mercantilist or Colbertist as we say in france (Crony too)... Not so different from US-way in foreign trade, with huge state implication in business to protect installed players. However both US and China (more China) unlike France, have a very strong local free capitalism with huge competition. 2016-12-08 22:26 GMT+01:00 Chris Zell <chrisz...@wetmtv.com>: > China is the nation to watch as to Communism. I understand that it sees > capitalist methods as useful on a path to Communism and has never given up > on this idea. If they can hold back corruption, they may continue with > the Party being dominant over all corporate forces (unlike the US in which > it is the other way around). > > > > Communism is mostly about developing and maintaining enough resources to > be easily shared. If abundance can be created technologically, there could > be a withering away of the state. Think about what free energy, future 3-D > printing and digital currencies could accomplish. We already have an > enormous resource of free information at our fingertips – that frustrates > centralized media and governance. Who knows what follows next? > > > > > > > > > > > > >
