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  New Chinese Nuclear Power Plant   China’s development strategy is based on a division of labor between an authoritarian government and competitive private companies. The old idea that a Communist party protects workers from their capitalist exploiters seems quaint. The capitalists and the Party are now partners in exploiting workers without permanent residence permits.   China’s government identifies areas of the economy that it thinks will drive economic growth. Since 2015, those areas have been new or emerging technologies the government decides will drive economic growth and technological dominance in the global economy. The government backs its objectives with massive investment in infrastructure, education, and new companies in targeted industries.       China begins by building infrastructure, concentrating on transportation. The latest is a new high-speed rail network linking cities and ports in the Pearl River megapolis.  It also di...

FIND POSTS BY CATEGORY The Beginning of the Industrial Revolution The theme of the following four sections of the blog is that innovation, not price competition, is the basis for understanding economic growth, competition, and analysis. Basic Concepts and Theory Market Behavior and Structure Market Dynamics and Information:  How Markets Work Economic Theory and Markets Corporate Strategies There is beginning a historic change in future populations and their demographics. This will interact with other variables and have a serious, maybe profound, effect on future economic growth. Demographics and Economics China Geopolitics and the Global Economy American Economic History Management The world seems to be in the midst of radical political and social change. Where are we going? Can studying past periods and countries facing disrupting change help us navigate our times? Maybe. History American History World War I:  The Beginning of the 20th Century The Roman Republic and Amer...

  SUMMARY China's dominance of the interconnected group of high-tech products will make China the dominant manufacturing country in the world. China will also dominate the global economy, exporting its high-growth products at falling prices and developing joint production in many countries.  This includes renewable energy. China is the world's largest and lowest-cost producer of most renewable energy technology, especially solar panels and batteries. China is also developing and installing many new technology nuclear reactors.   Combined with China's surge in exports to the world outside of the United States, as a reaction to American tariffs and bans on Chinese exports, most of the world's advanced technology will be based on Chinese technology. China will have to deal with internal, domestic problems. The long-term problem will be the large decline in population, especially the shrinking of the working age cohort. this is one reason that China is concentrating on the ...