Killing the Commissar: The Limits of Submission

Will Grigg: While China has migrated in the direction of a market economy, the commissars and "princelings" who run the political system still exercise formidable power to enrich themselves through simple plunder. Their current economic model is a form of corporatist crony capitalism strikingly like the one prevailing in the U.S.A., albeit with what Party ideologists call "Chinese characteristics."