The whole video was pointless. There was barely any new information or insight. Of course, China has a market economy that is a mix of SOEs and private companies - everyone knows that.
The more interesting question is whether China, specifically the CPC, is developing socialism or not. But OP just sidesteps that question and calls it irrelevant.
I know a lot of people like to criticize China on the basis that one of their billionaires might not be self-made or their guantano bay is better than ours or w/e, but I'm more concerned with whether or not they are exporting ideology.
Is China doing enough to inform their international comrades across the globe that there can be an alternative to capitalism?
This article covers why they don't export revolution
There's a reason why the only Communist Parties that survived to this day are parties that came into power without outside support. Even Vietnam's Communist Party was going to win by a landslide electorally before the U.S intervened.
The revolutions propped kept afloat by the Soviet Union often lacked a Proletariat class organized and committed enough to Socialism on its own and ended up collapsing under their own weight. Nevermind that the Soviets (and by extension China) could never know what models of socialism would succeed in those countries. Remember that Stalin preferred the KMT.
But more importantly exporting revolution creates enough consent on its own for ostensibly unaligned countries to participate in the encirclement of the country exporting it.
It seems like a hard sell right now. Hey, we've got an alternative to capitalism. In it, we allow individuals to amass capital and steal surplus value from their employees. You should try it out!!
What I really mean, is not "pro China" propaganda, and also not "pro socialism with Chinese characteristics" propaganda, but anti-capitalist, pro-worker, and pro-revolutionary propaganda tailored to target countries. Is China doing enough in this category?
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I'm certainly no expert but from what I can tell China is not trying to spread any ideological propaganda. I think the belt and road initiative may be pretty effective at spreading positive sentiment towards China and against the US if they're able to help industrialize and enrich some nations, but the last time I was in China it seemed pretty identical to most other developing nations where capitalist reality is a brutal grind that consumes the lives of the proletariat for the benefit of wealthy elites.
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I think right now it’s less about informing others there can be an alternative to capitalism, and more about informing others there can be an alternative to US hegemony. They need to be in a position where they can be completely free of US efforts to contain them first and foremost. They aren’t quite there yet, but BRI and other diplomatic efforts are definitely helping to reach that goal.
If they turn Orbán into a communist, i'm eating my dick.
Seems like they’re slowly starting.