The goal of this pressure campaign is to somehow convince China to self-sabotage the foundation of their budding prosperity—their means of production—thereby eliminating the competition.

Why don't the capitalist countries try to out-compete China on commodity prices instead?

They've tried!

But due to decades of offshoring productive capacity and hoovering up their best and brightest minds into the financial and "tech" sectors, regaining a competitive edge will require a lot more effort than simply throwing money at the problem.

The disease is, of course, capitalism itself. And at the core of the capitalist mode is commodity production.

Since China's economy is undoubtedly still dominated by commodity production, it is easy to see this as de facto proof that China's model is not socialist.

So how is China progressing from this ‘lower’ stage of socialism toward a ‘higher’ stage?

By undercutting imperialism, the core of global capital's political power.

The beating heart of imperialism is monopoly-like control of the global economy, which is why China’s sovereign command of critical global commodities poses an existential threat to the imperialist order.

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