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Has China become a capitalist society?

Results so far:

Yes
62% 127 votes Total: 205 votes
No
38% 78 votes
  • 1 of 16

    by Robert C. Sage

    "Black cat, white cat, what matters is whether it catches the mouse." is how Deng Xiao Ping justified allowing private capital enterprises and these have been the main source of the

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  • 2 of 16

    by Derrick Elliston

    China is slowly evolving into a capitalist society. The Communist Party no longer frowns on making money, in fact it welcomes it.The thinking is that the more prosperous the people

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  • 3 of 16

    by Jack Roviere

    In general, China has definitely become capitalist. In comparing China to its former self, it most certainly has become more capitalist and surprisingly, it did so quickly than other

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  • 4 of 16

    by Anthony Mendoza

    It is said that in China today 95 percent of prices are set by markets not by bureaucrats. Today the international community is profoundly aware that China is the world's 10th largest

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  • by Mf Proca

    OK, I think the question itself isn't totally accurate.

    If we look at the economic and historic facts of the Chinese economic model, we see it hasn't actually "become" a capitalist

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  • 6 of 16

    by Mark Hopkins

    The People's Republic of China has most certainly abandoned Communism as Mao and the 'Long Marchers' of the 1930s would have understood it. It remains ruled by a tyrranical clique

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  • 7 of 16

    by T. M. Beeker

    Capitalism is an economic system that often influences political ones. In the Soviet Union try as the might capitalism forced policies that led to its downfall. China has learned that

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  • 8 of 16

    by C. M. Weston

    Is capitalistic, free-enterprise activity evident in the streets of China?
    Do you see private taxis? Is privately grown produce available?
    Is company stock available on public exchanges

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  • 9 of 16

    by Frances Simon

    According to the Oxford English Dictionary, capitalism is an "economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather

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  • 10 of 16

    by Woody Scotland

    Yes and no in the concealing and the dialectical senses. The uncertain answer to this question is useful to the leadership of the People's Republic of China (PRC) as it navigates economic

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  • 11 of 16

    by Laszlo Parakovits

    In this debate it appears some of the respondents are confused as to the meaning of the term "capitalist' which refers to the economic means of producing goods and services.It has

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  • 12 of 16

    by Jeffrey Mcpeanne

    Yes, as long there is a means of production of goods and services for profit. China has qualified in this respect. However, don't confused capitalism with a free society like most

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  • 13 of 16

    by Anna Chew

    Yes.
    Sometimes, Chinese are communists, sometimes revolutionists, but all the time all Chinese is a capitalist. China is a nation of capitalists, especially so after the passing of

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  • 14 of 16

    by Carole Haynes

    China's long journey towards capitalism started during the late 1970's, perhaps as a result of the Nixon visit. When Zhou en lai died in 1976, his successor Deng Xiaping changed the

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  • 15 of 16

    by Lao Ke

    Opinions on what makes a capitalist society come in about as many flavors as Coke these days so it is important first to pare these distinctions to a simple definition. If one considers

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  • 16 of 16

    by Peter Ongera

    China approaches Africa very differently from most of the rest of the world and is accordingly having a big influence on the Africa's development. Confucius Institutes are now opening

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  • 1 of 8

    by Michael Breckenridge

    Absolutely not!

    I am a Canadian and have lived in Tianjin China for five years. Tianjin is a city of ten million plus but is far from Capitalist, it is not even Socialist, it is Elitist.

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  • 2 of 8

    by Mark Saga

    China is fascist.

    It seems like a contradiction in that one aspect of fascism is its anti-communism, but China has clearly given up communism. It hardly matters what the Communist

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  • 3 of 8

    by Costas Chryanthou

    China has certainly not become a capitalist society. The nation's people on the whole work for very little pay. Their economy that used to be largely communist still is. The factors

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  • 4 of 8

    by Kenneth Boser II

    It doesn't matter how many steps they take to insure their economy remains stable, capitalism is not, nor will be, in the blood of the Chinese.

    First, there are instruments of capitalism

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  • 5 of 8

    by Jason Luddy

    "China is a socialist country."We were taught by our political science teachers.

    Now I am a college student in China.From my elementary school period to college period,my teachers told

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  • 6 of 8

    by Bobby Lynch

    China is a check and balance of power society be it you read the bible about the kings of the medes. Against Globalization tyrants, and or mystery Babylon and it's yoke on the bible

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  • 7 of 8

    by Pamela Alvardo

    I think that in order for China to become a capitalist society it would have to reform its political system. This is not something that would happen in five or ten years, considering

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  • 8 of 8

    by Wordsleuth

    The question here is asking whether they have become a capitalist SOCIETY. China is definetly not a capitalist society, even though I am not sure there is a such thing but would have

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