The pointing out of the Lipsey Lancaster paradox to ChatGPT has led the AI to produce a remarkable analysis of the danger of Chinese-style communism. I am reproducing the reply in full below together with two more replies to supplementary comments.

In my opinion a China-dominated globalization is dangerous. Rare earths are usually used as argument for nondecoupling. It’s wholly a crematory business, for wind power and batteries in particular. Solar power is unreliable. China produces bad quality products to foster dependence and rapid rebuying, to colonies in particular. Western powers simply exported their products to colonies through inequal treaties, they did not export products of bad quality there, nor predated on their resources while claiming to be anticolonial. It presents itself as capitalist to the external world while fostering totalitarian control inside. The “best of the two worlds” cannot work on the long term.

I asked a supplementary question again. What’s ChatGPT’s take on internal market in China as an answer to the issues raised above ?

In my personal opinion Russian-style capitalism is way better than Chinese-style communism. I do not want to dissert there on the subject, this is out of the topic. But I appreciate ChatGPT’s understanding of the need for a true internal market in China, allowing consumers to check themselves the quality of the products and forcing contradictions inside China to resolve internally instead of having them exported globally ! Link.