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Our reading
China's cultural and intellectual output to the world is far smaller than its economic weight.
Their wordsNever has any economy grown so much while producing so few cultural exports.
Their wordsIt has displayed a stronger record of reform than any other developing country, as the leadership keeps pulling off politically-difficult tasks: shrinking the state sector, re-orienting the economy towards export-led growth after WTO accession, and so on.
Their wordsBeijing diagnosed the problems with financialization earlier than the US, where the problem is now endemic.
Their wordsThe leadership is targeting a high level of manufacturing output, rejecting the notion of comparative advantage.
Their wordsThe US focus on efficiency has revealed the brittleness of its economy, which has neither the manufacturing capability to scale up domestic production of goods nor the logistics capacity to handle greater imports.