The difference between the USA and China is what is found in the center of society.

In the United States, that is the dollar.

In China, that is the regular Chinese person.

Showing you this analogy in black and white, of course, but the point is that we are involved in a competition about dollars and cents.

China is also enormously improving its economic might, but the essence is not just the renminbi.

Politically, the single Red Party of China has control over everyone, and everyone is in the purview of the Chinese government.

The United States is structurally different, politically.

The Red Party supports the Red ideals, and the Blue Party supports the Blue ideals, and yet the whole of the nation is not in the purview of both parties. People fall off the wagon, left and right here, all the time. Only the majority is what both parties are desiring to please.

So, we are not just talking capitalism here. That horse is a horse everywhere (including in China), yet the horse jockey is the problem where we find the real distinctions.

The USA has the smartest horse jockey (small, tiny, skillful) delivering us the fastest horse in the race.

But that tiny horse jockey does not control the horse, and that at times very uncontrolled horse goes to places that do not benefit society (or nature) as a whole.

Keep the horse jockey in the story if you want to write A.Intelligently about capitalism.

Other than that, a very good article. Good job!