On paper perhaps but when you have the likes of Guanxi so embedded into Chinese social thought it muddles the water completely with regard to what label you could give it.
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So what you're saying is it looks like statist capitalism but when you look deeper those mysterious Chinese turn out to be kind of...inscrutable.
I can send you a long, long list of peer reviewed papers if you like? There is no consensus at all on the issue of what China's economy is, there is barely any on what the component parts are - ideologically speaking.
Laissez-faire capitalists tend to do this sort of conspicuous shuffle when talking about the success of China.
This is the sort of thing I get accused of, give me your evidence that it isn't and I'll give you mine.
If I said free-market capitalism only works in the USA because of the distinctive American ideal of entrepreneurship, and therefore cannot be translated to other countries, would you buy that?
Their progress is hardly disputable
Their growth-rate is quite irrefutable
But Command success stories
Sit ill with the Tories
So let's just agree they're inscrutable.
Their growth-rate is quite irrefutable
But Command success stories
Sit ill with the Tories
So let's just agree they're inscrutable.
As a response to my position that China cannot be described as either socialist or capitalist? No.
The current term doing the rounds for China's economy is 'post-socialist', the only term any agreement can be reached on.
What part of, I have said they are neither socialist nor capitalist do you not understand?
Joke, Brian!
I can never tell with some of your jokes sometimes, especially when somebody tries to equate my domestic views with anything overseas.
If it's in limerick form it's generally a fair bet
I was told by Team Brian GB
That markets are meant to be free
He said "feck the miner,
Forget about China,
We all love the old bourgeoisie"
That is it, I was trying to think what they were called and was running through Irish places.
Great response to my position on the Chinese economy, good show.
It is a rubbish article as it doesn't talk about the dynamics of market forces and interraction between institutions, organisations and actors in the Chinese economy.
It's one article from the Economist's special report on state capitalism a few months ago. I wasn't sure if you'd already have read it.
Not that specific article no.
This is the sort of article that I like as it tells you, literally, like it is, and allows you to form your own judgements - please forgive the author's name.
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They also can't say rice when speaking English. Hilariously they tend to say "lice".
To be distinguished from the little-known 'Sligo', which is formally similar but has an extra line:
Though once economically runts
The Chinese are now surging in front
So the Tories demand
They're not classed as 'Command'
Which is obvious bull, to be blunt.
(What a bunch of delusional cnuts.)
maybe they are selling you lice, and they are laughing at you
next time you buy rice from a chinese you have something to think about
Deep man.
Being rubbish at limericks I'd just like to put it out there that Brian rhymes with lots of things like cryin' and that Falklands rhymes with very few things e.g. Gourmands
Plech will sort it out
Plech will sort it out
My attempt.
Oh how great it is to be,
His supreme uberlord Team Brian GB,
In his defence of the Falklands
His opponents - 'they're like from RAWK man!'
The things he does for Queen and Country
Doesn't scan well, but you got cnut in, and that's the main thing.
Well, the situation back them was more of a very small flaccid cock that had already been withdrawn into the underpants and the zip on the jeans was almost completely up. There is now a significant station of marines, and RAF fixed wing aircraft on the islands, and 100% sure a Trafalgar or Astute class submarine (forget the Vanguard thing the Argies were banging on about, even if there is one about, we're not going to start chucking a Trident missile on their heads no matter what they get up to) buggering around them. The cock is well hanging out of the trousers already, sending a type 45 destroyer is pulling the foreskin all the way back with blood pumping in. There is no way that even if they wanted to they could invade those islands, and even if they did attempt it, a type 45 wouldn't be of much use due to its current lack of ability to engage surface ships. It can deny air cover for any ships the Argentines might send, but isn't that what the 4 Eurofighter jets are there for in the first place to do? The submarine then just takes them out one by one?
Looks like Brian tried to write a poem
He must have figured "Hey, when in Rome"
But it could have been sweeter
Seems he doesn't grok "meter"
And we all told him "Tories go home!"
He must have figured "Hey, when in Rome"
But it could have been sweeter
Seems he doesn't grok "meter"
And we all told him "Tories go home!"
I am not intending to give a lecture at Cheltenham or anything,
and I am home, though thank you for your concern.
We'd wandered far from the Malvinas
To China, its market, its freeness...
Now we're back to the Falklands
Cos Weaste's here to talk glans
And various zones of the penis.
To China, its market, its freeness...
Now we're back to the Falklands
Cos Weaste's here to talk glans
And various zones of the penis.
Now that you mention his cock
I once saw Weaste in a frock
I have to divulge
There was quite a bulge
Though he may have stuffed with a sock
It was an orange!
He's sunk deeper than that in the mire, though -
He once bummed himself with a biro...
But enough of this - Brian
What's Douglas Hurd's line on
The recent convulsions in Cairo?
And I think Weaste may have gone an analogy too far
Cristina Kirchner told to leave Falkland Islanders alone, by Argentina's intellectuals - Telegraph
Good to see some sense coming out of Argentina.
Yep, as my continent suffers with the legacy of colonialism, with the West's continuing soft power on the continent, with China increasingly encroaching as well, with the HIV and AIDS epidemic, with war, with famine and drought, with disgustingly poor health care, with unrivaled corruption, with terrible women's rights, with poverty, with brutal right-wing dictatorships, with genocidaires and humans rights abusers, with subsistence economies being ruined by countries higher up the development ladder telling us what to do and how to do it, in the process destroying whatever structures we have ....
I can sit happy in the thought that we don't do what those silly South Americans do, with their electing of leaders like Chavez, Correa, Morales and Lula. What a disaster that would be for the continent.
Can someone put that in limerick form for me?
Quality of life was a disaster,
on the continent of Africa
Their infrastructure in the loo,
Being told what to do
at least they're not in South America!
on the continent of Africa
Their infrastructure in the loo,
Being told what to do
at least they're not in South America!