[oblio]

> Only if the only things you purchase are exclusively domestic. Turns out, the vast majority of Chinese citizens with any means are interested in foreign products (like most people in the world).

Are they, though? China has its own huge software stacks, cloud providers, car manufacturers, etc? Is China really starving for anything not made in China, except for luxury goods? To which, I would point at Lexus (the archetypal example from Japan, a comparable country) and say that if you're a luxury good manufacturer in the Western world, I would not rest on my laurels, it's just a matter of time: either by development or acquisition, China will be making its own luxury goods and even exporting them, soon.

[ggandv]

If China embraces capitalism more tightly that will be a good thing for the world. The problem with China is not its wonderful people or culture, nor its prosperity, the glaring problem with China is Communism and the morality of authoritarian style central planning and the Xi/Putin axis of evil.

[oblio]

What China is not do Communism in any shape or form. It used to be back in Mao's days. Now it's just capitalist authoritarianism.

What you are mistakingly calling "capitalism" that China should adopt is... democracy.

[ggandv]

I’d argue. The CCP isn’t ideologically opposed to democracy but rather capitalism. Capitalism is an inherent feature of democracy. They despise capitalism (the Communist Party) even though they will play the long march and use it to subvert and destroy non-Communist ways of life.

Edit to add link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology_of_the_Chinese_Comm... (“views on Capitalism”)

[oblio]

The CCP is the single party of China. How are they "ideologically" not opposed to democracy? Democracy requires a multi-party system.