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by deaux 38 days ago
China is definitely different in this particular aspect. The balance of powers in "state vs corporations" is completely different from the US. And China is seeing massive benefits from this particular aspect of its country, it's closely related to their ascension vs. the decline of the US in particular.

Before people turn to Reddit-style downvoting and flagging, this isn't a vouch for China as a country on the whole. It has plenty of other problems that certain Western countries don't have. I'm simply talking about the specific topic at hand.
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pnw 38 days ago
China's problems with PFAS are substantially worse than the US.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398603137_Global_in...

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deaux 38 days ago
I'm sure they are, as I imagine they produce magnitudes more of it. Doesn't change anything about the balance of powers though.
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casey2 38 days ago
The difference is that when China actually cracks down things change relatively quickly. In 10 years this group [1] will be lower than in the US

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s771

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victorbjorklund 38 days ago
Yea, when the communist party thinks an industry should change it changes in the way the communist party says. Of course it is often not without side-effects.
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expedition32 37 days ago
China is tightening regulations and trying to clean up their country.

Trump is waging war on the EPA.

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kortilla 38 days ago
Can you enumerate some of these benefits? They famously arrested Jack Ma for not bending to the CCP enough. I don’t think that’s really a benefit (e.g. if the equivalent in the US was Democrats arresting any CEOa politically against them).
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deaux 38 days ago
They're countless. Can you not think of any major issues as of 2026 directly caused by the enormous power that megacorporations hold in the US? I struggle to believe you can't. If you can, then it should be easy to see that at least some of them would not happen in China because of the opposite balance of power.

Just to give one example, look up the crackdown on Alibaba and platform monopolies. You also mentioned Jack Ma. The Ant Group IPO he was pushing, was likely to be a bad thing for most of Chinese society.

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Spooky23 38 days ago
How did Netflix do making a business decision that defied the wishes of the Ellison family? With Trump 47 there are literally pages of this sort of stuff.

Other notable non-Trumpist example is Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest. He refused to comply with a request for phone records without a warrant. The reaction was a drop in Federal business and a prosecution for insider trading.

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pnw 37 days ago
That was over 20 years ago? And there were half a dozen Qwest executives who were profiting from insider trading on inflated revenues that started in 1999, long before the NSA incident in 2001. I remember it clearly because I had the misfortune of being a shareholder in that dog.
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