How to Use state capitalism in a Sentence

state capitalism

noun
  • The point is that Sorondo admires the state part of state capitalism.
    Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Now the next phase of Chinese state capitalism is under way—call it Xinomics.
    The Economist, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Neither shareholder nor state capitalism works for all people and the planet.
    Klaus Schwab, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
  • By his record, Mr. Xi is a staunch backer of China’s brand of state capitalism, with an inclination to improve its performance, not overturn it.
    Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 2 May 2018
  • Washington is seeking to balance trade flows and curb Beijing’s state capitalism.
    Emre Peker, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2019
  • And, as our briefing explains, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is reinventing state capitalism for the 2020s.
    The Economist, 13 Aug. 2020
  • China has defied the sceptics because its state capitalism has adapted, changing shape.
    The Economist, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Going into his second term, Mr. Xi finds relying on markets too risky and state capitalism a better model.
    Lingling Wei, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The test was originally designed for Soviet-style command economies, but today it should be broadened to include China-style state capitalism.
    Nicholas Phillips, National Review, 19 Oct. 2021
  • By that definition, China is far from having a capitalist economy, for Chinese state capitalism is a system in which the purpose of firms is to fulfill the goals of the Communist Party.
    WSJ, 4 Aug. 2021
  • There was a common conviction that China is not about to change its model of authoritarian state capitalism.
    The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The pattern has grown increasingly stark as inequality has surged during China’s shift over the past 40 years from Maoist collectivism to state capitalism, with wealth concentrated on the east coast as the interior lags behind.
    Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2021
  • Failure to find the right answers risks leaving the kingdom in limbo: an absolute monarchy with diminishing resources to fund an unsustainable version of state capitalism.
    Donna Abu-Nasr, Bloomberg.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The Chinese economy is instead a system of state capitalism in which the arbiter is an uncontestable political authority.
    Daniel Rosen, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Is the future one in which open societies with free markets vie for influence in global affairs with authoritarian countries under state capitalism?
    K.n.c., The Economist, 28 June 2019
  • The fundamental importance of innovation to long-term growth poses an existential threat to China’s model of state capitalism.
    Philip Cross, National Review, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Plus, state capitalism means the government can ensure the overemployment of otherwise inefficient labor.
    Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Since the transition from socialism to state capitalism and the brutal suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Movement, China's government has based its legitimacy on its ability to grow the economy, keeping its people safe and successful.
    James Griffiths, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
  • More realistically, the news means that Chinese president Xi Jinping — whose government has embraced political repression with the same zeal as rapacious state capitalism — is teeing himself to become a dictator for life.
    Will Bunch, Philly.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • China, soon to be the world’s largest economy, practices state capitalism, a system that allows government officials to ensure that economic growth ultimately serves political and national interests.
    Time, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Without economic freedom, China’s state capitalism can’t match America’s democratic capitalism.
    WSJ, 17 Aug. 2020

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