Comment by coffeebeqn

The long term trend is that Xi is fizzling Deng’s economic miracle with terrible policies. Plus the rest of the world is catching up in manufacturing as the Chinese workforce becomes smaller and more expensive. Said bad policies mean that there is nothing to take the place of manufacturing as the party seeks to control all businesses - especially tech. Belt and road seems to have turned into an expensive incomplete project with no great returns except now they have a bunch of broke countries indebted to them which I guess has some value