I watched a video today:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WWY7A221hwAChina is leapfrogging credit cards to jump directly into the adoption of mobile payments. An oligopoly is in place and as the adoption of the tech rises fast, it's not set to change. Now the Communist government is seeking to control such payments even more and the biggest payment companies are likely to cooperate. Perhaps one day people there would appreciate decentralization but for now the majority of the Chinese seem really careless about p2p tech and payments.
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One question with china's strategy is whether their communist government can develop and manage an electronic payment system better than the private sector. This question also applies to socialist venezuela and other historical instances where similar things have been attempted.
Part of the reason venezuela isn't in the best shape economically involves their socialist state waging a war against all forms of capitalism in the country. This war destroyed jobs and drove private enterprise out of the country. The socialist state was unable to create jobs, distribute resources and create economic opportunity better than the private sector, and so we see the shape venezuela is in now.
It is possible we will see china make many of the same mistakes venezuela made as they seek to bring things like electronic payment directly under the state's control.
It may be that heavily centralized political structures like a communist government lack the competition necessary to run programs which are efficient. In the business world, it is survival of the fittest to a degree. Centralized states have no competition which could contribute towards them becoming wasteful, inefficient and dysfunctional.