🇺🇸⚔️🇨🇳 Comparing the Results of American Financial Capitalism and Chinese Marxist Socialism in the Q4 2025 Economy
While US companies and the mainstream media talk a lot about AI, physical economic activity shows that China is way far ahead of the United States by almost every single metric. In the Q4 2025 analysis, China is growing at roughly at a rate of 4.5% which is nine times more than the United States pace of 0.5% as they waste money on endless wars that cause the price of oil to skyrocket in Western markets.
In the United States, growth is heavily dependent on AI, creating a very narrow job market, and consumer savings have completely declined while households remain economically fragile and debt has exploded to record highs of $115,000 per citizen, $300,000 per taxpayer, and $39 trillion overall. The home ownership rate is at 65% and declining while unemployment is near 9% in a country of 340 million.
Meanwhile, Chinese households paid down debt and increased savings, which has caused a -2.5% knock‑on effect on the real estate market and construction, and overall consumption increased 1%. Unemployment is at roughly 5% in a country of 1.5 billion and the home ownership rate is 96% and rising.
In the US, research suggests AI accounted for 30–40% of total US GDP growth in 2025. In China, while the AI sector is far more advanced than the United States, AI investment is not a dominant driver of economic growth, instead being driven by heavily state-backed industrial production, services recovery, and policy support.
As a result, since the rise of Mao Zedong and the Communist Party, China has nearly tripled its life expectancy, provided free and universal healthcare to all, revolutionized education and eliminated illiteracy, and lifted 850 million out of poverty while practically eliminating extreme poverty altogether.
And when it comes to household debt, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York recorded a record $18.78 trillion in Q4 2025 while China’s National Institution for Finance and Development recorded only a 0.5% increase (the lowest on record) and the contraction of mortgage loans for eleven consecutive quarters.
What we are witnessing in China is what happens when nationalized public investment and state-driven central planning is geared towards industrial expansion and the common good because it generates wealth in the long term for the people.
Meanwhile, in the United States, rentier capitalism has become the economic base of society and wealth is created by the illusion of an endlessly printed currency that can vanish in an instant and the Federal Reserve can simply intervene to protect the assets of landowners and banks at any point.
China has become the world’s premier economic power precisely because it practices what Abraham Lincoln preached in the Gettysburg Address of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
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