Modernity with tradition, market economy with state planning, investment in education and technology. There are several aspects highlighted by the journalists interviewed by TV 247, who participated in the “Global South Media Workshop”, a trip promoted by the Chinese government for communicators and media outlets from Latin America.
“Arriving in a country like China was really very impressive and very exciting to see that it’s possible, right? I come back from the future and say: ‘It’s possible'”, said the project coordinator at Brazil in factCaroline Apple, on the program Sage Stationled by journalist Regina Zappa.
“The trip really opened up a new universe of political, cultural perception and narratives of well-being, of social organization. They don’t talk about copying the model, but they inspire us to seek our own paths. They already got wet and gave up their umbrella so that others wouldn’t get wet.”
In this sense, the site editor Other WordsAntonio Martins, who was in China for the second time, analyzes the Chinese model as a hybrid system. “I wouldn’t call the system neither capitalism nor state capitalism. It is, in fact, a hybrid system, in which, in a certain sense, the law of capital is in force, with the vast majority of private companies, where 80% of the workers are. However, these companies are subject to central planning, with coordination. What it will produce, the general tone it will follow, a plan that is then decentralized.”
At the same time, Martins highlights, essential services such as water, energy, transport or the road system are in the hands of the State.
When comparing with the Soviet system, Martins recalls the analysis of economist Ladislau Dowbor, who understands the previous system as another type of alienation. “But, at the stage we are at, they say [os chineses]you need to let people take initiative. Yes, we need to let people learn on their own to imagine what they will produce and how they will earn an income.”
Antonio also remembers that, despite having one or another private bank, the entire financial system is subordinate to the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank. “There is a banking system whose essence is public. There is no rent-seeking in China. There is not a trillion dollars like here in Brazil, which is social wealth wasted and captured by a parasitic class.”
The journalists were in several regions, including Tibet, where they had the opportunity to learn about the changes taking place in one of the poorest regions of the continent, which, until 1949, lived under a feudal regime. Among the projects visited is an industry for processing meat produced by pastoralists, small producers, who can sell and thus earn money beyond subsistence farming.
Martins also highlights the way China has dealt with the issue of artificial intelligence, with the government’s mobilization both in encouraging startups and mobilizing universities, not only to use the technology, but to prepare for the impact on work.
Journalist Dhayane Santos, da TV 247says that 35 universities are already thinking about artificial intelligence, showing the role that public investment plays in inducing development. Santos considers that these actions are linked to the way Chinese society thinks about knowledge. “They don’t have an arrogant attitude like people like: ‘Look how good we are; look here, we can do it’. No, the attitude was: ‘How can you help us improve this even more’”.
With research work on manifestations of spirituality in traditional people, Apple highlights the depth of the practice in Tibet. “We have in Brazil this miscellany of religions, of philosophies. Among them, Eastern lines are very present in the universalist path, such as Buddhism. But, through Western lenses, we make a big mistake here when talking about orientalism, because we take that and transform it into something divine, something outside of material reality. And it is not. The issue of Tibetan Buddhism is intrinsically connected with politics and well-being.”
Source: www.brasildefato.com.br
