How to Use state capitalism in a Sentence

state capitalism

noun
  • The point is that Sorondo admires the state part of state capitalism.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Now the next phase of Chinese state capitalism is under way—call it Xinomics.
    — The Economist, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Neither shareholder nor state capitalism works for all people and the planet.
    — Klaus Schwab, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
  • As this interesting book demonstrates, state capitalism is nothing new, but it has been given new longevity.
    — Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
  • China has defied the sceptics because its state capitalism has adapted, changing shape.
    — The Economist, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Washington is seeking to balance trade flows and curb Beijing’s state capitalism.
    — Emre Peker, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2019
  • The same government that lectures Beijing about state capitalism and nonmarket behaviors now practices it at home.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
  • There was a common conviction that China is not about to change its model of authoritarian state capitalism.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Is the future one in which open societies with free markets vie for influence in global affairs with authoritarian countries under state capitalism?
    — K.n.c., The Economist, 28 June 2019
  • This move is uncomfortably reminiscent of China’s state capitalism, not to mention the attendant risks of cronyism.
    — Lael Brainard, Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The test was originally designed for Soviet-style command economies, but today it should be broadened to include China-style state capitalism.
    — Nicholas Phillips, National Review, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Plus, state capitalism means the government can ensure the overemployment of otherwise inefficient labor.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
  • At the same time, however, Prigozhin is a product of Putin-style state capitalism, in which the Kremlin distributes tax revenues to various outsourcers.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Industrial policy — or state capitalism, as the Chinese variant is called — has gone mainstream in Washington.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • China, which has long engaged in state capitalism, is both pulling back from global markets in many commodities and honing its ability to use sanctions and other state interventions to advance its interests.
    — Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2025
  • That kind of state capitalism puts it in company with China, but also the United States and other big countries that have belatedly engaged in versions of the same.
    — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The Chinese economy is instead a system of state capitalism in which the arbiter is an uncontestable political authority.
    — Daniel Rosen, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The fundamental importance of innovation to long-term growth poses an existential threat to China’s model of state capitalism.
    — Philip Cross, National Review, 30 Dec. 2020
  • And, as our briefing explains, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is reinventing state capitalism for the 2020s.
    — The Economist, 13 Aug. 2020
  • At the other end is state capitalism, like in China, where the government directs economic activity while incorporating market elements.
    — H. Sami Karaca, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
  • China, soon to be the world’s largest economy, practices state capitalism, a system that allows government officials to ensure that economic growth ultimately serves political and national interests.
    — Time, 18 Nov. 2019
  • By that definition, China is far from having a capitalist economy, for Chinese state capitalism is a system in which the purpose of firms is to fulfill the goals of the Communist Party.
    — WSJ, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The pattern has grown increasingly stark as inequality has surged during China’s shift over the past 40 years from Maoist collectivism to state capitalism, with wealth concentrated on the east coast as the interior lags behind.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2021
  • There’s state capitalism, entrepreneurial capitalism, crony capitalism, free-market capitalism and more.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Without economic freedom, China’s state capitalism can’t match America’s democratic capitalism.
    — WSJ, 17 Aug. 2020
  • China’s nationalist state capitalism now dominates the international economic order.
    — Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2025
  • More realistically, the news means that Chinese president Xi Jinping — whose government has embraced political repression with the same zeal as rapacious state capitalism — is teeing himself to become a dictator for life.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Since the transition from socialism to state capitalism and the brutal suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Movement, China's government has based its legitimacy on its ability to grow the economy, keeping its people safe and successful.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Instead of embracing liberalizing reform (as so many in the West assumed was inevitable), the Chinese Community Party tightened its grip, strengthened state capitalism, and maintained significant controls on foreign inflows of investment, trade, and information.
    — Lael Brainard, Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2025

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