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by bad_user 3565 days ago
> China for some reason is viewed as comfortably capitalist

For the purposes of western companies with ties to China, they have capitalism - after all, allowing child labor in sweat shops is very capitalistic.

On the other hand the state controls a majority of enterprise assets even though the number of enterprises fully owned by the state is around 30%. And they also impose their will on privately owned companies, with the market not being free.

Also, don't confuse capitalism with democracy ;-)