[Right_Wing_Madman]

Mr. Thayer remains confident in America, saying the country has great ideological strengths over the communist regime.

I'm not so sure about this. The US has been in ideological freefall the past ten years. For example, the United States thinks feminists should run its military.

China is ruled by a one-pary state, which sucks for the Chinese, but its government actually intervenes less in the economy than in the US:

China is a country with a low to moderate government spending ratio. Total government expenditure amounted to around 33 percent of the GDP in 2022, while this amounted to nearly 39 percent in the United States.

Government finances in China - statistics & facts
https://www.statista.com/topics/11499/government-finances-in-china/#:~:text=China%20is%20a%20country%20with,percent%20in%20the%20United%20States.

[Olog-hai]

That’s a pack of lies. Government is involved in all aspects of Red China’s economy. Every so-called private company of theirs is actually government-owned.