• culpritus [any]
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    2 years ago

    that article is quite the :brainworms: stew

    “The economy is being viewed, affected and controlled to achieve a political end.”

    [context] CIA agent talking about how evil Xi wants to make the economy good for the people of China because it makes him politically powerful.

    “Chinese consumption is not driven by the government but by entrepreneurship, and the market,” Jack Ma of Alibaba said in September 2015. “In the past 20 years, the government was so strong. Now, they are getting weak. It’s our opportunity; it’s our show time, to see how the market economy, entrepreneurship, can develop real consumption.”

    Ma may have thought that the times suited him, and to a degree, they did. His business continued to soar. But Xi was all the time making sure that the party grew in tandem with the economy, in both the state and private sectors. In retrospect, Ma’s comments look dangerously cocky.

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Ma may have thought that the times suited him, and to a degree, they did. His business continued to soar. But Xi was all the time making sure that the party grew in tandem with the economy, in both the state and private sectors. In retrospect, Ma’s comments look dangerously cocky.

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    • emizeko [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      yea serious brainworms. what else should the government do but achieve political ends? one of matt's recent cushvlogs is how the distinction between "economy" and "state" is entirely fictitious

      I should have double quoted the excerpt, it's as quoted in China Has Billionaires

      https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/