alt Hacker NewsNah he's correct, local government compete on implementation details, not overall strategy that is monopolize by the central government. Which has the same pitfalls (-see zero-covid or the debt crisis owing to gdp targets)
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mono442 • 08/21/2026
China doesn't have a debt crisis.
Also if any of the local governors / entrepreneurs cross a line they just disappear to focus on reading. Some of them might reappear after a decade having thoroughly understood the textbooks.
For example Jack Ma reappeared after his successful re-education.