Comment by mayama
6 hours ago
One emperor in US state doesn't control legislative, executive, judiciary, military and private company boards and financial capital. The way you have to look at China it is an empire with bit of communism and capitalism. If the mandate of heaven is favorable emperor controls everything, otherwise power diffuses a little among the emperor coterie.
Right on, it's always an orientalist delusion that underlies an apparently innocent liberalism.
Political economy is the science that provides the terms to answer the question at hand. There's no other serious way to understand the world.