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China is politically centralised and economically decentralised, and the belief that a handful of people run its economy is the West's biggest misconception about it.

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  1. Keyu Jin

    Economist specialising in China's economy

    The biggest misunderstanding is somehow that a group of people or even just one person runs the entire Chinese economy. It is far from the reality. It is a very complex, large economy, and even if there is an extreme form of political centralization, the economy is totally decentralized.

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    ↗Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477youtube.com

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