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> This is literally the path that led the USSR to ruin.

Or China to current-day prosperity. It’s hard to admit but it’s a double edged sword and there are winners and losers.

Choose your poison wisely.

Incorrect. It was liberalization (to some extent) of the otherwise heavily centralized economy that led China to its present day prosperity.

Saying this was not the path to China’s current-day prosperity is to place a VERY heavy weight, on a very thin branch.