| Or : They are a pay for play publication, which some PR agency associated with Foggy Bottom "contacted" to tout the horn of some group of western capitalists. Said capitalists got beat at their own anti-protectionist game IRL. They have no easy solution to end up on top, so they are trying their hand at "manifesting" the result they want, like some under-prepared teenagers before a test. This "you're overproducing" meme is their try at using basic Marxist semantics. According to Marx, Capitalist economic crises are always crises of overproduction of commodities (exchange values). The meme is designed to sow doubt in minds worldwide which are in the danger of thinking that Chinese Communism might have solved some of the basic contradictions of capitalism. This meme is an ode to fatalism: even in Communism, ever declining rates of profit are inevitable and so are boom and bust cycles and crises. With luck, even some people of high rank in the Chinese intelligentsia could be convinced of that... |