If the size of state and bureaucratisation are the main issues, one wonders how China got so far :-)

creddit an hour ago | parent | next [-]

No one wonders that if they have any actual knowledge. Chinese government spending as a % of GDP is much less than say France. :-)

Bureaucratisation in the realm of business is much smaller in most relevant ways for most enterprises in China as well.

In what sense is china bureaucratic when it comes to business?

Tax breaks, operations of state owned industry, other incentives etc are guided by five year plans implemented by a party bureaucracy.

	▲	dmurray 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		"You can't do X" is a much different experience from "you can do X, but you need to spend a year and thousands of man-hours of paperwork applying for permission to do it". In China, if the five-year plan prioritizes something, businesses will be up and running in months. In France, if the French parliament enacts a law prioritizing something, businesses still have to fight individual departments or local governments that have their own ideas about how they should regulate it. Don't confuse bureaucracy for authoritarianism.