China Against Capitalist-Induced Entropy
How should China behave when capital demands the lives of its citizens in order to continue the onward march of profit? Forces guided by capitalism—beyond and within the borders of China—threaten China’s economic, political, and social existence by the refusal to allow for the prudent and necessary control of a disease that through continued reinfection has the potential to significantly alter the life expectancy and mental acuity of its victims.
Capitalist Pressure with Western Characteristics
What is pressure to a modern superpower nation-state with a population of over 1.4 billion souls, and what are these capitalist forces exerting this undefined ‘pressure’ on it? Pressure is economic, pressure is social, pressure comes from T.V. diplomats and it comes from the unwashed masses yearning for understanding why the price of milk has shot up and why the chicken they had not just a year ago is ten euros now instead of four-and-a-half.
China has come from the fields, into the workshops, and onto the world stage since the first five-year plan in 1953 under Mao. After decades of hard earned industrialization—and a most interesting foray into co-opting capitalism in order to slingshot themselves closer to a socialist paradise under Deng Xiaoping—China has opened up to, and participated in the ‘global market’ as how it would be defined by neoliberalism. With foreign capital influx, comes foreign capitalist pressures. Economic pressure or imperialism-as-a-service can be the result of actions such as lending and borrowing, or the withholding of borrowing or the suspension of repayment1. For China this simply put borrowing trap is dim as its economy is large and important enough to supplant any diplomatically uncouth calls for recovering an excessive amount of debts in service of reducing SARS-CoV-2 (SARS-2) restrictions.
