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In social media posts, podcasts, interviews and newsletters, the elites of the American tech sector are marveling at China’s speed in building infrastructure, its manufacturing might and the ingenuity of the A.I. company DeepSeek. At the same time, they are lamenting aging infrastructure and cumbersome regulations in the United States, and an economy that can’t seem to make screws or drones, or the machines that manufacture them.

Suddenly, Chinese firms once dismissed as copycats are being studied for lessons on efficiency and scale. China’s top-down, state-led system is being reframed not as a political liability but as a model of efficiency and execution.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The Chinese model being superior to the US model is not a revelation, we’ve known this for decades:

    …if a country’s goal is economic growth above all other considerations, the truly winning combination would appear to be neither liberal democracy nor socialism of either a Leninist or democratic variety, but the combination of liberal economics and authoritarian politics…or what we might term a “market-oriented authoritarianism.”

    • Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, 1992

    There’s no better socioeconomic model than the Chinese model IF the goal is economic growth “above all other considerations.” Should we value growth above all else? I don’t think so, but many people do, especially the rich and powerful.