What rules in China
doesn’t have a neat label. It’s imprecise to call it gangsterism or
totalitarianism, nor can it be labeled mercantilism or communism. It’s the worst
of everything about every bad system of government, glopped
together.

In that case, I wonder if
we should call it
glopism:ÊÊ

“when
corrupt government colludes with thuggish businesses and organized
criminalsÊto perpetuate a vicious circle of economic, political, and social
destruction at the expense of those too ignorant to understand, too weak to
resist, or too law-abiding to fight back.”