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Comment by fwip

17 hours ago

They were very poor before central planning, and the central planning is what got them from being very poor to relatively poor and economically powerful.

This is objectively not the case, selling goods to America and Europe is what made China rich and that is due to a free market system they implemented

  • Only very partially free, though. The govt still has massive control over the markets, and especially the banks. They still plan a lot of their economy.