Un modèle social-démocrate pour la Chine ? Remarques critiques sur la voie chinoise : capitalisme et empire de Michel Aglietta et Guo Bai

This article was written for a collective book published by Delga Publ., gathering together contributions on contemporary China, in particular those presented during a conference organized at the French National Assembly in March 2013. It proposes critical comments on La Voie chinoise written by Michel Aglietta and Guo Bai. After having presented the interpretation of the Chinese “sui generis capitalism” given by the authors, then our own interpretation, we discuss some of the themes examined in this book, among others: the analysis of the imbalances of the Chinese economy, the issues of the allocation of factors and their prices, those of the management of natural resources and of access to land, the rules to be applied to the bond and stock markets, the internationalization of the currency and monetary sovereignty, the specificities of the state-owned enterprises, the conception of the public services, strategic planning, the question of power and “Chinese-type socialism”