In China the government basically controls the corporations, whereas Western virtual-corpocratic governances, notably the U.S. and Canada, are basically steered by corporations’ economic intimidation or extortion.

Perhaps we Western folk should take note and follow the Chinese practice?

Nah. We’ll just stick to our elected governments habitually kowtowing to the very wealthy but especially big business’s debilitating threats, implied or explicit, of job losses, capital investment relocation and/or economic instability—thus electoral defeat.

Lobbyists will write bills for governing representatives to vote for and implement, often word for word.

There are also the annual subsidies doled to profitable corporations and the forgiveness of huge loans owed to taxpayers.

And, of course, almost all information is produced and/or shared with us by corporate-owned media.