We simply cannot be certain how socialism would have fared in the absence of US hostility. There is no escaping history.
China is extremely complicated and I simply do not know enough to comment in detail beyond stating that you are right: it is a hybrid system. The greatest period of Chinese growth/development came after the US and Japanese began investing on a grand scale, outsourcing manufacturing and transferring technology while leaving industrial relations under the control of the CCP. China's great advantage now is that they have retained socialist models in the provision of education, health-care and (sometimes) housing thereby keeping costs low and maintaining Chinese competitiveness. The US, by contrast, has developed its own version of state-capitalism with the financial sector (the leading investment banks) acting as a disaggregated central planning network (as opposed to a classically Leninist single central planning agency).
From what I have heard Yugoslavia had a vastly milder form of communism than the USSR or the others. A friend born there compared some aspects of life there favourably to the West. Amongst other things, she said that the educations system was a lot better (more rigorous) and that standards of living for educated professionals in her home town were higher than in the West (more likely to own holiday homes etc).
We simply cannot be certain how socialism would have fared in the absence of US hostility. There is no escaping history.
China is extremely complicated and I simply do not know enough to comment in detail beyond stating that you are right: it is a hybrid system. The greatest period of Chinese growth/development came after the US and Japanese began investing on a grand scale, outsourcing manufacturing and transferring technology while leaving industrial relations under the control of the CCP. China's great advantage now is that they have retained socialist models in the provision of education, health-care and (sometimes) housing thereby keeping costs low and maintaining Chinese competitiveness. The US, by contrast, has developed its own version of state-capitalism with the financial sector (the leading investment banks) acting as a disaggregated central planning network (as opposed to a classically Leninist single central planning agency).
I was born in Yugoslavia -- a FAR more humane and community-oriented society.
However, Serbian supremacy made Yugoslavia toxic for other nationalities... -- unfortunately
From what I have heard Yugoslavia had a vastly milder form of communism than the USSR or the others. A friend born there compared some aspects of life there favourably to the West. Amongst other things, she said that the educations system was a lot better (more rigorous) and that standards of living for educated professionals in her home town were higher than in the West (more likely to own holiday homes etc).