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Jiang says he does not place much weight on China's five-year plans because China's recurring long-run problem is inefficient capital allocation under state planning.
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Capital Allocation
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Key Notes
model
Jiang's model is that state planning sends capital to people closest to power rather than to the most energetic or innovative producers.
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diagnosis
Jiang argues that China's announced innovation successes are overstated because the system monopolizes capital in the hands of the powerful and weakens real incentives to innovate.
model
Jiang argues that America and China are moving toward the same state-planning and state-financing model, which misallocates capital away from smaller productive businesses.
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Jiang says capital should go to small entrepreneurs building restaurants and other businesses that employ people rather than to the AI-finance complex.
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"Look, I'll be very blunt with you, David. I don't really pay much attention to these five -year plans, like these modernization efforts, focus..."
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"I mean, that's just the reality on the ground in China."
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"Look, the reality is that America and China are moving toward the same model, which is state planning, right? State financing. And again, the..."
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The interview starts with an optimistic claim about a China-US reset, then widens into a harsher model of late-order politics: China and America still need each other, but both systems are drifting toward state...
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