The rise of China to its position of economic, geopolitical and military prominence did not happen overnight and it did not happen as the result of a handful of bought-and-paid for politicians. Rather, China has been carefully and intentionally built up as a major player in the emerging multipolar New World Order by the same gaggle of globalists who have overseen the global financial and geopolitical for the past 50 years.
But why?
To get a handle on this question, it's fruitful to take a look at what it is that the globalists see in China. We can gain insight into the answer by looking at a curious, recurring theme in the controlled establishment media propaganda about China. I call it: "China Is Horrible! . . . But Wouldn't It Be Nice?"
This theme can be seen in just about every piece in the controlled corporate media about the evils of the Chinese government and its treatment of its citizens. In a nutshell, they expose the unbelievably Orwellian control that the ChiComs assert over every aspect of citizens' lives, decry it as tyrannical . . . and then point out how effective this autocratic system is in managing the Chinese economy and building Chinese military might and geopolitical clout. The effect of such propaganda is always to remind the reader that China is The Enemy and deserves our Two Minutes Hate—but that it would be nice if our loving, Western, "democratic" governments assumed some of those powers, too.
Trudeau's now infamous expression of "admiration" for the Chinese dictatorship is one example of this theme, but the propagandists over at The New York Times provided perhaps the quintessential expression of this idea in a recent article, "Living by the Code: In China, Covid-Era Controls May Outlast the Virus."
The piece opens by noting the plight of Xie Yang, a human rights lawyer who decided to travel to Shanghai to visit the mother of a dissident even after local authorities warned him against taking the trip. On his way to the airport, officials changed Xie's health status on his government-mandated health code app from "green," meaning that he was free to travel, to "red," prompting airport security to attempt to put him in quarantine.
The rest of the article walks a delicate line: it accurately documents the egregious abuses of human rights enabled by the biosecurity surveillance grid erected by the Chinese government, but it is peppered with constant reminders about how effective this grid is at "containing" the scamdemic. The Chinese government, it tells us, has become "emboldened by their successes in stamping out Covid." And, we are told, the government-mandated health code app is "key to China’s goal of stamping out the virus entirely within its borders." These controls "have really produced great results, because they can monitor down to every individual," the article quotes a Chinese dental worker as saying. The Times even asserts that the government's "success in limiting infections" has led to "widespread support" for the measures.
In other words: China's tyranny is horrible! . . . But wouldn't it be nice?
Once you notice this particular propaganda ploy, you will see it everywhere in mainstream discussions about the Chinese "menace" that is supposedly the greatest "threat" to the free world. And once you do notice this trick, you will begin to understand the real reason that the globalists have worked so closely with China for decades: not because they are adherents of communism, but because they see China as an experimental laboratory in which to perfect a new form of governance for the planet.
This is precisely what David Rockefeller meant when he wrote his infamous ode to Chairman Mao in an August 1973 New York Times op-ed, "From a China Traveler":
The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.
It is not that Rockefeller was a secret (or not-so-secret) communist. In fact, it turns out that the Chinese system of governance isn't really communism at all.
So if China isn't communist, what is it?
The answer is simple: China is a technocracy.
Technocracy is not the benevolent rule of an enlightened scientific class, but the use of that class by the ruling oligarchy to more effectively manage the human population.
The technocratic mindset is everywhere apparent in the Chinese system, where the citizenry is treated as unruly variables in an otherwise harmonious equation, variables that can only be tamed by rigorous logic and ruthless algorithmic strictures. Hence the laundry list of heartless, inhuman, but doubtless "efficient" techniques for managing the population. The techniques, spearheaded by the Chinese, range from the world's most pervasive facial recognition network to the vast social credit system, which regulates citizens' behaviour by barring them from public transit or by blocking their access to higher education or well-paying jobs if they do not comply with government dictates.
Is it any wonder, then, that China was the first country to roll out the QR code-driven, smartphone-hosted "health pass" that enables the government, if it chooses, to prevent any individual from passing any government checkpoint at any time? Or that the Western media—let alone (mis)leaders like Trudeau—would so openly lust after those powers?
No. This is false. The western globalists (imperialists) are going to war with China precisely because China won't cede its country to the western globalists (imperialists). China is an incredibly democratic country- elected officials are held accountable at every level. It is a true meritocracy. Its economy is organized for the good of its citizens, not for the profits of a select few, like it is in the United States.
There is only one globalism, and it is Western. The club includes billionaires from the West. China and Russia are not invited- the Western globalists have long tried to loot both countries.
You understand the power of the globalists' propaganda. It is all propaganda. China has the kind of government we are supposed to have. Don't let words like "communism" take your eyes off the people who are really scamming us. You understand the Western globalists are destroying the American people. Well, they want to destroy the world and loot its fortune, and nothing pisses them off more than a country like China that takes care of its citizens.
So they lie, lie, lie, and the manipulate dissent online to try to take you off course.
In a day or two, I shall be posting (on Substack) a multi-part 10,000 word article on BRICS, in general, but specifically a historical and current financial analysis on international trade, currency, and related thereto States (and governments).
There are several reasons for the work. Among which (a) to make up for what BRICS has been unwillingly to do, namely the absence of any official attempt to detail explanations of its agenda or provide clear directions. The primary cause for that is the Chinese cultural reticent to lay out rules and guides because by their very existence they would invariably draw boundaries on which to act. And, (b) as a response to this episode program, to you and to Warwick Powell, especially at time-marker 48:00 onwards when your conversation with him veered to trade accounting.
The coming essay is not a substitute for an official layout of BRICS purpose and intent, though it reflects a Chinese view of the same, written in the English.
Below is a general introduction into the coming essay, now completed but awaiting re-reading and revision where necessary. Once the essay is up, you are welcome to reproduce it as you see fit.
INTRODUCTION
An international political economy under construction at BRICS is, the Chinese hope, will be a future system of relationships. Hope because relationships aren't, by their nature and as is self-evident, a one way street, one side dictating the direction and scope. Future because relationships aren't in themselves a new phenomenon in whatever form they now take, whether these forms are transactional or familial or at inter-state levels.
Relationships define and determine the course of different civilizations as these emerge across time and space. In their turn, these civilizations vary the quality of relationships such as between the individual and family, between citizenry and State, society and government, and among persons and among States. Nobody has the last word on an ideal set of relationships, which the western White bundle as “values”. If indeed that ideal exist then the Rest of the World is witnessing what those decrepit western values are made of and what they truly look like in actual and tangible ways in Palestine.
The term “system” suggests deliberate, conscious efforts to put in place, that is, to construct a raised platform for inter-state conduct. Platform because this holds up the State as an exemplar and as representative of national conduct. It very naturally, if a person is not to fall off a platform, sets the boundaries or limits of State or human conduct without bearing any set of rules other that the platform itself which can be expanded or shrunk as necessity requires. The platform that is BRICS eschew “rules” which presume a higher authority, divinity and a higher human specie over the Rest. It is this rules-based (western, biblical) system that needs to be torn up and replaced, a system imposed on the world for centuries and its barbarity demonstrated most lately in Gaza. In BRICS, there are no Chosen Ones.
The economic component, specifically money and trade, is a natural starting point in the BRICS system. Natural because the first contact between two societies or two nations, as represented in two persons, is an exchange. That initial exchange may be oral, greetings exchanged, involving no intermediation or money but with gifts of goods. Regardless, it's the start of a relationship journey. An exchange of the sort conducted in a market, for example, feels transactional, producing hence the Chinese idiom yulai youqu 有来有去 (literal transaction: has/come/has/go), that is, an intentional, deliberate, two way flow of things that carry in their flow a human sentiment.
Social exchanges between persons are like that. It requires cultivation. It begins, invariably, with a transaction, such as over a bar counter, a vendor's vegetable cart, a butcher's stand, or a bank window. That is, human relationships typically thrives at the marketplace where goods or merchandise once transacted creates a two-way relationship in an instant. Thus, the well-spring of any relationship is, on the one part, the act of a human exchange (denoted by) 化 which, long ago, had used as currency cowry shells 贝. The two script combined produces huo 货, which translates as goods or merchandise, whereas huobi 货币 means currency, the second character bi 币 standing for a bale of silk that, in the old days, was the medium of exchange. An item of goods is, therefore, the basis for, as well as the fruit of, an exchange relationship.
It is to economics, trade and money in particular, that the BRICS system launches this essay.
Great interview Lena. I hope you are reading the comments yourself.
I especially liked the part where Prof. Warwick pointed out the negligible cost of energy now that wind, solar and battery storage are more and more available and affordable and will open the global south and even other parts of the globe to participate in modern technology, including datacenters and AI. I believe these countries will also develop economies that will gladly consume Chinese made goods as they repeat the Chinese development form poor to western middle-class standards. In that scenario the US protectionism will harm everybody in the mid- to long term.
I know this is not the best way, but I can't find any place to send a direct message, so I write it here: I like to offer you a guest slot in my podcast and would be happy to reciprocate. Please let me know if you would be willing to consider this invitation.
Everyone thinks of China's social credit system as some sort of Black Mirror episode, while others compare it the the FICO score in the USA. It's much, much more than that. In fact, I found the documents that highlight how it works, and how it affects the people of China. Not only that, but I have spent a lot of time in the first city it was implemented.
Keep in mind, this is how the social credit system in China works, but it hasn't been implemented nationwide yet, only in selected areas.
China and the BRICS+ are fully onboard with UN-WEF Agenda 21/2030 and as such are a proponent of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their implementation.
Although there are numerous rights enumerated in China’s Constitution, all of those rights are negated by Article 51, which states: “When exercising their freedoms and rights, citizens of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) shall not undermine the interests of the state.” Those “interests” are all encompassing, but the most important is maintaining the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) monopoly on power. Consequently, China’s constitutional rights are merely “paper rights,” and a grand illusion.
Under paramount leader Xi Jinping, who took over in 2012 as general secretary of the CCP and as president in 2013, the Chinese state’s dominance has been increasing. Article 1 of the PRC’s Constitution, as amended in 2018, explicitly recognizes the dominant role of the CCP: “Leadership by the Communist Party of China is the defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics.” As President Xi declared, echoing Mao Zedong, “Party, government, military, civilian, and academic, north, south, east, west, and center, the Party leads everything.”
In the 1990s, private companies became more politically active, lobbying individually and in business associations. Some entrepreneurs joined local and national People’s Congresses and started engaging in philanthropy. Eventually, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recognized the growing importance of the private sector in the economy and society by officially affirming their economic and political value. The cornerstone of this shift was General Secretary Jiang Zemin’s doctrine of the “Three Represents,” first unveiled in 2000, which in part aimed to increase representation of private business executives in the CCP.
Over the following decade, the integration of the private sector into the country’s political establishment did help private firms gain a greater seat at the table. However, for the most part, private firms learned that they needed to adapt to the CCP rather than the other way around. More private entrepreneurs joined the legislature and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), an official advisory group. Private firms formed more partnerships with SOEs, offered shares in their firms to officials, and in other ways ingratiated themselves with the party-state and its leadership. And, of course, many private entrepreneurs have themselves been former officials. In the last several years, particularly under Xi Jinping’s rule, there has been an even greater attempt by the political leadership to increase their control over the private sector, reduce its political influence, and ensure its loyalty to the system. This has included expanding the reach of national security policies and regulations. For example, the adoption of the National Intelligence Law in 2017 requires all firms in China to accede to government demands to provide information and data as authorities deem necessary to protect China’s national security. It has also meant using carrots, such as providing industrial policy opportunities to private firms, and sticks, such as the regulatory crackdown on private Internet firms that started in late 2018 and recently concluded. Finally, the CCP has also stepped up efforts to directly influence the corporate governance of private firms, in some cases taking “golden shares” in companies, pushing private firms to form CCP branches (see Figure 3), and integrating firms into the burgeoning “corporate social credit system” (CSCS).....
China is the Laboratory for Globalism:
From: James Corbett
The rise of China to its position of economic, geopolitical and military prominence did not happen overnight and it did not happen as the result of a handful of bought-and-paid for politicians. Rather, China has been carefully and intentionally built up as a major player in the emerging multipolar New World Order by the same gaggle of globalists who have overseen the global financial and geopolitical for the past 50 years.
But why?
To get a handle on this question, it's fruitful to take a look at what it is that the globalists see in China. We can gain insight into the answer by looking at a curious, recurring theme in the controlled establishment media propaganda about China. I call it: "China Is Horrible! . . . But Wouldn't It Be Nice?"
This theme can be seen in just about every piece in the controlled corporate media about the evils of the Chinese government and its treatment of its citizens. In a nutshell, they expose the unbelievably Orwellian control that the ChiComs assert over every aspect of citizens' lives, decry it as tyrannical . . . and then point out how effective this autocratic system is in managing the Chinese economy and building Chinese military might and geopolitical clout. The effect of such propaganda is always to remind the reader that China is The Enemy and deserves our Two Minutes Hate—but that it would be nice if our loving, Western, "democratic" governments assumed some of those powers, too.
Trudeau's now infamous expression of "admiration" for the Chinese dictatorship is one example of this theme, but the propagandists over at The New York Times provided perhaps the quintessential expression of this idea in a recent article, "Living by the Code: In China, Covid-Era Controls May Outlast the Virus."
The piece opens by noting the plight of Xie Yang, a human rights lawyer who decided to travel to Shanghai to visit the mother of a dissident even after local authorities warned him against taking the trip. On his way to the airport, officials changed Xie's health status on his government-mandated health code app from "green," meaning that he was free to travel, to "red," prompting airport security to attempt to put him in quarantine.
The rest of the article walks a delicate line: it accurately documents the egregious abuses of human rights enabled by the biosecurity surveillance grid erected by the Chinese government, but it is peppered with constant reminders about how effective this grid is at "containing" the scamdemic. The Chinese government, it tells us, has become "emboldened by their successes in stamping out Covid." And, we are told, the government-mandated health code app is "key to China’s goal of stamping out the virus entirely within its borders." These controls "have really produced great results, because they can monitor down to every individual," the article quotes a Chinese dental worker as saying. The Times even asserts that the government's "success in limiting infections" has led to "widespread support" for the measures.
In other words: China's tyranny is horrible! . . . But wouldn't it be nice?
Once you notice this particular propaganda ploy, you will see it everywhere in mainstream discussions about the Chinese "menace" that is supposedly the greatest "threat" to the free world. And once you do notice this trick, you will begin to understand the real reason that the globalists have worked so closely with China for decades: not because they are adherents of communism, but because they see China as an experimental laboratory in which to perfect a new form of governance for the planet.
This is precisely what David Rockefeller meant when he wrote his infamous ode to Chairman Mao in an August 1973 New York Times op-ed, "From a China Traveler":
The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.
It is not that Rockefeller was a secret (or not-so-secret) communist. In fact, it turns out that the Chinese system of governance isn't really communism at all.
So if China isn't communist, what is it?
The answer is simple: China is a technocracy.
Technocracy is not the benevolent rule of an enlightened scientific class, but the use of that class by the ruling oligarchy to more effectively manage the human population.
The technocratic mindset is everywhere apparent in the Chinese system, where the citizenry is treated as unruly variables in an otherwise harmonious equation, variables that can only be tamed by rigorous logic and ruthless algorithmic strictures. Hence the laundry list of heartless, inhuman, but doubtless "efficient" techniques for managing the population. The techniques, spearheaded by the Chinese, range from the world's most pervasive facial recognition network to the vast social credit system, which regulates citizens' behaviour by barring them from public transit or by blocking their access to higher education or well-paying jobs if they do not comply with government dictates.
Is it any wonder, then, that China was the first country to roll out the QR code-driven, smartphone-hosted "health pass" that enables the government, if it chooses, to prevent any individual from passing any government checkpoint at any time? Or that the Western media—let alone (mis)leaders like Trudeau—would so openly lust after those powers?
https://www.corbettreport.com/its-confirmed-tyrants-love-china-but-why/?fbclid=IwAR2DZyFBjV3i73xKPvTHnyzVebMZIF5R2dLjojj_3KNd88aga18CDha6eRA_aem_AaTl6PWKH_fG7kdb-wEn77etNiq_OtSkJBLlkG6Zu19kjJT3Grn-aBy52vhCmXK6XtM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
No. This is false. The western globalists (imperialists) are going to war with China precisely because China won't cede its country to the western globalists (imperialists). China is an incredibly democratic country- elected officials are held accountable at every level. It is a true meritocracy. Its economy is organized for the good of its citizens, not for the profits of a select few, like it is in the United States.
There is only one globalism, and it is Western. The club includes billionaires from the West. China and Russia are not invited- the Western globalists have long tried to loot both countries.
You understand the power of the globalists' propaganda. It is all propaganda. China has the kind of government we are supposed to have. Don't let words like "communism" take your eyes off the people who are really scamming us. You understand the Western globalists are destroying the American people. Well, they want to destroy the world and loot its fortune, and nothing pisses them off more than a country like China that takes care of its citizens.
So they lie, lie, lie, and the manipulate dissent online to try to take you off course.
China is a Technocracy (modern term for Fascism, as in Corporatism). See my comments below….
In a day or two, I shall be posting (on Substack) a multi-part 10,000 word article on BRICS, in general, but specifically a historical and current financial analysis on international trade, currency, and related thereto States (and governments).
There are several reasons for the work. Among which (a) to make up for what BRICS has been unwillingly to do, namely the absence of any official attempt to detail explanations of its agenda or provide clear directions. The primary cause for that is the Chinese cultural reticent to lay out rules and guides because by their very existence they would invariably draw boundaries on which to act. And, (b) as a response to this episode program, to you and to Warwick Powell, especially at time-marker 48:00 onwards when your conversation with him veered to trade accounting.
The coming essay is not a substitute for an official layout of BRICS purpose and intent, though it reflects a Chinese view of the same, written in the English.
Below is a general introduction into the coming essay, now completed but awaiting re-reading and revision where necessary. Once the essay is up, you are welcome to reproduce it as you see fit.
INTRODUCTION
An international political economy under construction at BRICS is, the Chinese hope, will be a future system of relationships. Hope because relationships aren't, by their nature and as is self-evident, a one way street, one side dictating the direction and scope. Future because relationships aren't in themselves a new phenomenon in whatever form they now take, whether these forms are transactional or familial or at inter-state levels.
Relationships define and determine the course of different civilizations as these emerge across time and space. In their turn, these civilizations vary the quality of relationships such as between the individual and family, between citizenry and State, society and government, and among persons and among States. Nobody has the last word on an ideal set of relationships, which the western White bundle as “values”. If indeed that ideal exist then the Rest of the World is witnessing what those decrepit western values are made of and what they truly look like in actual and tangible ways in Palestine.
The term “system” suggests deliberate, conscious efforts to put in place, that is, to construct a raised platform for inter-state conduct. Platform because this holds up the State as an exemplar and as representative of national conduct. It very naturally, if a person is not to fall off a platform, sets the boundaries or limits of State or human conduct without bearing any set of rules other that the platform itself which can be expanded or shrunk as necessity requires. The platform that is BRICS eschew “rules” which presume a higher authority, divinity and a higher human specie over the Rest. It is this rules-based (western, biblical) system that needs to be torn up and replaced, a system imposed on the world for centuries and its barbarity demonstrated most lately in Gaza. In BRICS, there are no Chosen Ones.
The economic component, specifically money and trade, is a natural starting point in the BRICS system. Natural because the first contact between two societies or two nations, as represented in two persons, is an exchange. That initial exchange may be oral, greetings exchanged, involving no intermediation or money but with gifts of goods. Regardless, it's the start of a relationship journey. An exchange of the sort conducted in a market, for example, feels transactional, producing hence the Chinese idiom yulai youqu 有来有去 (literal transaction: has/come/has/go), that is, an intentional, deliberate, two way flow of things that carry in their flow a human sentiment.
Social exchanges between persons are like that. It requires cultivation. It begins, invariably, with a transaction, such as over a bar counter, a vendor's vegetable cart, a butcher's stand, or a bank window. That is, human relationships typically thrives at the marketplace where goods or merchandise once transacted creates a two-way relationship in an instant. Thus, the well-spring of any relationship is, on the one part, the act of a human exchange (denoted by) 化 which, long ago, had used as currency cowry shells 贝. The two script combined produces huo 货, which translates as goods or merchandise, whereas huobi 货币 means currency, the second character bi 币 standing for a bale of silk that, in the old days, was the medium of exchange. An item of goods is, therefore, the basis for, as well as the fruit of, an exchange relationship.
It is to economics, trade and money in particular, that the BRICS system launches this essay.
Great interview Lena. I hope you are reading the comments yourself.
I especially liked the part where Prof. Warwick pointed out the negligible cost of energy now that wind, solar and battery storage are more and more available and affordable and will open the global south and even other parts of the globe to participate in modern technology, including datacenters and AI. I believe these countries will also develop economies that will gladly consume Chinese made goods as they repeat the Chinese development form poor to western middle-class standards. In that scenario the US protectionism will harm everybody in the mid- to long term.
I know this is not the best way, but I can't find any place to send a direct message, so I write it here: I like to offer you a guest slot in my podcast and would be happy to reciprocate. Please let me know if you would be willing to consider this invitation.
How Does China's Social Credit System Work?
Everyone thinks of China's social credit system as some sort of Black Mirror episode, while others compare it the the FICO score in the USA. It's much, much more than that. In fact, I found the documents that highlight how it works, and how it affects the people of China. Not only that, but I have spent a lot of time in the first city it was implemented.
Keep in mind, this is how the social credit system in China works, but it hasn't been implemented nationwide yet, only in selected areas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVkWokLqPOg&t=135s
China’s Role in the Global Social Credit System
By Iain Davis
https://open.substack.com/pub/geopoliticsandempire/p/chinas-role-in-the-global-social?r=1kb28q&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Living Under China-Style Globalism: A Warning
By Alex Newman
https://open.substack.com/pub/libertysentinel/p/exposed-chinas-collectivist-threat?r=1kb28q&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
China and the BRICS+ are fully onboard with UN-WEF Agenda 21/2030 and as such are a proponent of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their implementation.
Xi Jinping and Agenda 2030:
https://duckduckgo.com/?va=o&t=ha&q=Xi+Jinping+and+Agenda+2030&ia=news
BRICS and Agenda 2030:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=BRICS+and+Agenda+2030&va=o&t=ha&ia=web
G77 and Agenda 2030:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=G77+and+Agenda+2030&va=o&t=ha&ia=news
BRICS Declaration:
Scroll down to page 16, paragraph 52 under the heading, “Partnership for a Sustainable Development.”
https://brics2023.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Jhb-II-Declaration-24-August-2023-1.pdf
China’s Constitutional Rights: A Grand Illusion
Although there are numerous rights enumerated in China’s Constitution, all of those rights are negated by Article 51, which states: “When exercising their freedoms and rights, citizens of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) shall not undermine the interests of the state.” Those “interests” are all encompassing, but the most important is maintaining the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) monopoly on power. Consequently, China’s constitutional rights are merely “paper rights,” and a grand illusion.
Under paramount leader Xi Jinping, who took over in 2012 as general secretary of the CCP and as president in 2013, the Chinese state’s dominance has been increasing. Article 1 of the PRC’s Constitution, as amended in 2018, explicitly recognizes the dominant role of the CCP: “Leadership by the Communist Party of China is the defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics.” As President Xi declared, echoing Mao Zedong, “Party, government, military, civilian, and academic, north, south, east, west, and center, the Party leads everything.”
https://www.cato.org/blog/chinas-constitutional-rights-grand-illusion
Can Chinese Firms Be Truly Private?
In the 1990s, private companies became more politically active, lobbying individually and in business associations. Some entrepreneurs joined local and national People’s Congresses and started engaging in philanthropy. Eventually, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recognized the growing importance of the private sector in the economy and society by officially affirming their economic and political value. The cornerstone of this shift was General Secretary Jiang Zemin’s doctrine of the “Three Represents,” first unveiled in 2000, which in part aimed to increase representation of private business executives in the CCP.
Over the following decade, the integration of the private sector into the country’s political establishment did help private firms gain a greater seat at the table. However, for the most part, private firms learned that they needed to adapt to the CCP rather than the other way around. More private entrepreneurs joined the legislature and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), an official advisory group. Private firms formed more partnerships with SOEs, offered shares in their firms to officials, and in other ways ingratiated themselves with the party-state and its leadership. And, of course, many private entrepreneurs have themselves been former officials. In the last several years, particularly under Xi Jinping’s rule, there has been an even greater attempt by the political leadership to increase their control over the private sector, reduce its political influence, and ensure its loyalty to the system. This has included expanding the reach of national security policies and regulations. For example, the adoption of the National Intelligence Law in 2017 requires all firms in China to accede to government demands to provide information and data as authorities deem necessary to protect China’s national security. It has also meant using carrots, such as providing industrial policy opportunities to private firms, and sticks, such as the regulatory crackdown on private Internet firms that started in late 2018 and recently concluded. Finally, the CCP has also stepped up efforts to directly influence the corporate governance of private firms, in some cases taking “golden shares” in companies, pushing private firms to form CCP branches (see Figure 3), and integrating firms into the burgeoning “corporate social credit system” (CSCS).....
https://bigdatachina.csis.org/can-chinese-firms-be-truly-private/
China Is A Technocracy
https://www.technocracy.news/day-7-china-is-a-technocracy/
How The Trilateral Commission Converted China Into A Technocracy
https://www.technocracy.news/trilateral-commission-converted-china-technocracy/
Technocracy In China: The World’s First Technate – Part 1
https://www.technocracy.news/technocracy-in-china-the-worlds-first-technate-part-1/
China Is The World’s First Technate
https://www.technocracy.news/prelude-to-day-7-china-is-the-worlds-first-technate/
Technocracy Was Born In US, Grew Up In China, Now Conquering The World
https://www.technocracy.news/technocracy-was-born-in-us-grew-up-in-china-now-conquering-the-world/
Technocracy: The Operating System For The New International Rules-Based Order
https://www.technocracy.news/technocracy-the-operating-system-for-the-new-international-rules-based-order/
BRICS & The New World Order: What's Going On?
https://open.substack.com/pub/libertysentinel/p/deep-state-new-world-order-emerges?r=1kb28q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Living Under China-Style Globalism: A Warning
https://open.substack.com/pub/libertysentinel/p/exposed-chinas-collectivist-threat?r=1kb28q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web