“Americans Don’t Know How Capitalist China Is” (2024)

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What would happen if the US stopped trading with China? ›

The costs to the U.S. economy if we were to prohibit domestic companies (impacting companies such as GE, Honeywell, Collins, and Parker Aerospace) from engaging with COMAC would be significant: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that losing access to China's aviation market would translate into a loss of $38 ...

China's rapid economic growth is the result of its embrace of a market economy and private enterprise. China is among the most open markets in the world: It is the largest trading nation and also the largest recipient of foreign direct investment, surpassing the United States in 2020.

The reforms carried out by Deng and his allies gradually led China away from a planned economy and Maoist ideologies, opened it up to foreign investments and technology, and introduced its vast labor force to the global market thereby transforming China into one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

In the book How China Became Capitalist, we emphasized the presence of two reforms, one led by Beijing and the other being marginal revolutions. We also argued that it was marginal revolutions that transformed China from socialism to a market economy. At the same time, we gave due credit to the Chinese government.

Nearly half of all US foreign-owned debt comes from five countries. All values are adjusted to 2023 dollars. As of January 2023, the five countries owning the most US debt are Japan ($1.1 trillion), China ($859 billion), the United Kingdom ($668 billion), Belgium ($331 billion), and Luxembourg ($318 billion).

China was the United States' third-largest trade partner in 2021. In 2021, 8.6% of total U.S. exports of $1.8 trillion to the World were exported to China and 17.9%of total U.S. imports of $2.8 trillion were imported from China. Mechanical Appliances, Sound Recorders and TV sets were the most traded commodity sectors.

China has been a socialist country since 1949, and, for nearly all of that time, the government has played a predominant role in the economy.

Modern capitalist theory is traditionally traced to the 18th-century treatise An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Scottish political economist Adam Smith, and the origins of capitalism as an economic system can be placed in the 16th century.

1989 and the Birth of State Capitalism in China.

What makes China socialist? ›

The Chinese government's understanding of private ownership is claimed to be rooted in classical Marxism. According to party theorists, since China adopted state ownership when it was a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country, it is claimed to be in the primary stage of socialism.

Most current communist groups descended from the Maoist ideological tradition still adopt the description of both China and the Soviet Union as being state capitalist from a certain point in their history onwards—most commonly, the Soviet Union from 1956 to its collapse in 1991 and China from 1976 to the present.

👉 Overall, if we were to stop purchasing goods from China, the popular 'Made in China' label would slowly become obsolete – but China would probably continue producing goods and sell them to other countries, ultimately expanding the worldwide trading network.

Today, the US-China trade relationship actually supports roughly 2.6 million jobs in the United States across a range of industries, including jobs that Chinese companies have created in America.

If China (or any other nation that has a trade surplus with the U.S.) stops buying U.S. Treasuries or even starts dumping its U.S. forex reserves, its trade surplus would become a trade deficit—something which no export-oriented economy would want, as they would be worse off as a result.

The United States exported a total of US$144.9 billion in goods to China last year, marking a 4.3 per cent decline from a year earlier when the figure reached a record-high US$151.4 billion, said the report by the US-China Business Council.