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The point is that it's true when you point the finger to US companies. US companies are extensions of the US elites (while the state is just a tool). Actually US elites have way more power over foreign companies than Chinese elites do.

I really don't think it's gonna make any real difference if we are facing (strong state + weaker corporations) or (strong corporations + weaker state).

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> US companies are extensions of the US elites (while the state is just a tool)

Incorrect. In the US, the state, the courts, corporations, elites, and everyone else all have competing and overlapping interests, and out of that democracy comes the sausage.

In China, the system is specifically rigged so that the state always trumps everyone else, when it decides it needs to.

In China you also have elites and governments competing with each other.

> Democracy is when the competing groups are "the US, the state, the courts, corporations, elites"

Americanist ideology is really something else.

If you're going to quote, you could at least do so accurately.

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