>>11827404The USSR failed to foster indigenous technological development, and instead were heavily dependent on Western technology, which played a role in the economic decline. This is something China is, and has been, attempting to avoid (see recent Made in China 2025 initiative). The USSR, also, possessed a fundamentally centrally planned economy, which the Chinese rejected in the late 1970s-80s with Deng Xiaoping's market reforms. These reforms were chastised by economic conservatives in favor of central planning, pointing toward the 1989 student uprising in Tiananmen Square as a sign of the dangers of liberalization. China responded to these concerns by streamlining the stagnant state-owned enterprises and appointing committees to control who ran them, but overall allowed the state-owned sector to operate semi-autonomously, pushing them to maximize profits both at home and then abroad. The problem with the USSR "opening up," is that market reform was attempted, but all they effectively did was undermine the mechanisms in place, leading to economic decline. On top of this, the USSR, as Russia today, was dependent on energy exports. The US launched an oil war on its rival, preventing major Soviet energy exports to Europe, and also convinced the Saudis to pump more oil so as to decease its worth, dealing heavy blows to the USSR.
>Because China seems to still have a positive internal opinion of their government even with foreign media coming in.I can tell you for sure that the Chinese are not letting any foreign media in that hasn't been vetted.
