At the height of the 2008 financial crisis I was invited to an off-the-record media lunch with a famous investor. I was taken aback when one of the world’s most successful capitalists announced that the crisis showed the Chinese had a superior economic model.
China has tried something different from traditional capitalism, with its reliance on the ‘hidden hand’ of the free market.
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