A relatively short article with some key assertions. The first paragraph is definitely going to irritate some people here. But the main thrust of the article is presented later, which is -
China’s late Cold War role as the great anti-communist power in the East, and its subsequent role in financing the American empire as it invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
The article lays out a lot of history as it relates to the Sino-Soviet relations and shows how as a result -
The CCP picked the side of capital in the Cold War, doomed the international communist movement in the process
Most important is this paragraph w.r.t the Cold War -
The first sign of betrayal was China’s active role in supporting Pakistan during the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh By 1972, Mao’s meeting with Richard Nixon signaled that the full anti-communist pivot was complete. With this pivot, China became a close American ally and the bulwark of anti-communism in East Asia and beyond. By the middle of the decade, the CCP was giving out loans to Pinochet, supporting UNITA in Angola alongside South Africa and the US against Cuba and the Soviet Union and had opened diplomatic relations with reactionary capitalist powers, from the Marcos regime in the Philippines to Japan. Deng Xiaoping sealed this alliance by invading Vietnam in 1979 in defense of the US-backed Khmer Rouge which the Vietnamese government had been attempting to overthrow. The CCP claims to have killed 100,000 Vietnamese communists in that war, which broke the back of the communist movement in East Asia and essentially ended it as a Cold War front , thus allowing the US to fully pivot to its massacres in Latin America and Africa in addition to the defense of Europe against the USSR and domestic communist movements.
And in the post-Soviet world -
Unlike other major American bond purchasers (Japan, South Korea, Germany) who are American military protectorates and can thus even be coerced into increasing the value of their currency, China subsidizes the American war machine ... CCP funds America’s wars in order to maintain the high value of the dollar relative to the yuan, which gives China a massive competitive edge in manufacturing and is a critical source of China’s massive economic growth.
In coalition with the East Asian American military protectorates, China filled the massive budget shortfalls that resulted from the combination of the Iraq War, Bush era tax cuts, and the early 2000s recession, propping up the flailing US economy as the war commenced. Chinese bond purchases intensified with US spending in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Indeed, the CCP became an eager participant in the new War on Terror by allying closely with Israel, adopting American counterinsurgency techniques and technologies from the rapidly burgeoning trade, and eventually hiring American mercenary Erik Prince for themselves for deployment in “Xinjiang.”
So I kind of answered this question already. Because you're right, the increased bargaining power of labor in one labor market is met by capitalists outsourcing jobs to cheaper labor markets, and you do see this happening as Chinese wages increased just as it had happened when wages were high in America. The difference being that when a business closes their doors in America the result is that everyone is out of work. When a business closes its doors in China, in comparison, all of the fixed capital, the warehouses, the factories, the machinery, ect, becomes property of the state at which point production can either resume as a public enterprise, or other public works can step in to "fill the void," so to speak.
Chinese wages are also a result of Chinese labor. The post war period in America was a unique time period that was a result of the convergence of several factors. One of which is being a major actor in a war that they were largely untouched by, which means that all of the wartime spending and production was basically just a huge public works program and a massive stimulus for the working class, with none of the domestic economic destruction that is typically accompanied by war. Couple this with European markets that have been crippled by the war resulting in the increasing domination of US capital over these markets, things like the Marshall plan making the US the center of international trade and how that creates leverage for mechanisms of unequal exchange with the global south, and the US labor movement still representing somewhat of an organized threat to capital and having just won some important victories, you have a recipe for an American capitalist class that is experiencing super-profits on a global scale and is willing to be conciliatory with domestic labor because it's not costing them much comparatively. The unique conditions of the US labor movement is covered pretty thoroughly in this /r/AskHistorians thread. But at some point, when you wages are being subsidized by the hyper-exploitation of imperialism abroad, that well is eventually going to run dry. Capital may have been willing to placate an organized working class at the time, but the same fundamental relationship between labor and capital still exists.
The opposite is true for China. If you accept the premise that the CCP is a representative of the working class and maintains control over the markets, and you understand that the profit motive of private enterprise is used to encourage needed investment that is mutually beneficial for the private enterprise and the Chinese working class, and you can see that once this arrangement is no longer beneficial for both parties then the state steps in on the side of labor and manages production as a public enterprise instead, then what you have is an economy that is not organized around capitalist principles. In capitalism, the profit motive is what all production is organized around, and the entire point is to maximize the profits of private enterprises. In the Chinese market, the profit motive is simply used as a mechanism for exchange that is used to gain access to important investments in labor saving tools and technologies that are needed to develop advanced productive forces that are capable of providing for everyone.
And you can see this evolving process take place over the course of China's development throughout these market reforms. As time goes on, more and more of production is happening under these State-Owned enterprises, with around half of production today being State-Owned. Traditional economists observe this growing trend of State-ownership, and decry these enterprises as incredibly "inefficient" in terms of maximizing profits, and therefore doomed to fail. As one economist observes:
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What this kind of analysis misses is precisely the point that they are not profit oriented organizations, they are organizations that are meant to provide a public service. These services aren't "losing" money, they cost money. Or, rather, they cost labor and resource inputs. But that's precisely the point of socialist development. You are spending our shared resources in ways that maximize the public good and advances our mutually shared interests. You aren't "losing" money when you build housing for the homeless, you are providing a service that "costs" money. So the declining rate of profit that inevitably plague capitalist economies don't have a depressing effect on the wages of Chinese labor, because China is poised to take over development and administer it according to a public plan once the profit motive is no longer sufficient for organizing production.