China under Xi Jinping seems to be in good economic health, but its older citizens still clearly remember the Communist China of Mao Zedong and the dictatorial communist era.
What is the reason for China's economic success?
Mainly due to two reasons:
The first driver is the strategic change of the military establishment, which, after the economic default of the USSR, understands that the West has the right economic formula. If not changed in accordance with the Western economic formula, in the best-case scenario, economic default was assured, and in the worst-case scenario the West would once again reach the borders of China;
The second driver is the consequent change in the economic formula, from a statist subsidiary system organized solely in state cooperative enterprises to a capitalist formula of private economic initiative by citizens.
What do Chinese citizens owe to the welfare state of the average Chinese citizen today?
Precisely to the idea of having to go and catch up with the West, which was flying so high in the 1980s.
Having copied the economic formula and the "Anglo-Saxon" capitalist system, the difference is the conservation of power by the military and now oligarchic establishment.
The free economic initiative and the circulation of goods and services in a free market, the first pillar of Western society, is copied in full.
Private property and its succession, the second pillar of Western society, are not present for obvious old-fashioned reasons and at the moment, in the confront of your citizens "The state is a thief".
Freedom of thought and speech, the third pillar of Western society, are also not present, at the moment the country is missing "the social elevator" in the political expression, and the meritocraticy also.
So, Mr. Xi Jinping, how should the average Chinese citizen be, in your opinion?
Poor enough to think only about their own subsistence, and never wealthy enough to think they could do better than you in terms of political, socio-economic, and military leadership?
Precarious enough to have to think only about where to live for the next six months because they lack private property and are always renting?
Poor and precarious enough to never have the material time for higher thoughts, such as participating in political life or even leading the entire country?
Then there are these problems that need to be solved in some way, as Asian citizens in general point out to me.
As a citizen of the West, I say that the well-being of Western citizens is directly correlated with the well-being of Eastern citizens.