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You don't have remotely the same thing. You don't have high-speed trains, housing that populace who don't already own real estate can afford, a government that keeps the tech-oligarchs at a short leash and who mercilessly removes corrupt officials, functional public transit, functional anything public really.

Unfortunately, objective... independently verifiable information is not something we could confidently say is standard practice in China.

> highly entrenched state crony capitalism

If your goal is to rescue the reputation of capitalism, people have found more success just calling Donald Trump a communist.

The US was one of the earliest countries to have these things. China, Russia and even Nazi Germany were inspired by the US.

I think it's a bit reductive to compare China taking inspiration from America in the 20th century to Nazi Germany's explicit admiration for slavery and the genocide of Native Americans.

Germany copied the wrong things then, just like we are now copying the wrong things (surveillance, cronyism, absolute leaders) from China.