Source: Law & Liberty
by Samuel Gregg
“It’s no exaggeration to say that America is in the midst of one of its fiercest economic policy debates for some time. But the current quarrel between economic nationalists and free marketers extends beyond domestic policy. Whether conducted via long-form articles or duked out on X (formerly Twitter) by dirigiste senators and their free market critics, China looms large in the back-and-forth. The much-debated relationship between trade and national security forms part of that discussion. Yet so too do arguments about whether American policymakers in the late 1990s placed too much faith in markets to shift China towards greater political freedom, and, more generally, how much political change can be expected to flow from expansions of economic liberty. Missing from these disputes is an appreciation of economic liberalism’s place in modern Chinese thought before 1978.” (04/23/24)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/market-liberalism-chinese-style/