>>67577
The most failed utopian systems like the USSR's or even Cuba's are kept afloat by a naturally forming black market, and the less its suppressed the more the utopia takes to collapse, but the more the black market is a threat to the autocrat leaders. China's autocratic system was built by simply learning that lesson and making the autocratic system specifically to maximize its tolerance to the black market and let the black market run things "to a maximum extent".

This did not prevent the subversion of the people within the market, nor to a lesser extent the subversion of the people within the autocracy.
So now they face 2 possible paths:
Now they have to make a move to prevent the market from taking over or collapsing, and their choice was to increase the influence of the autocratic system over the market in hopes that AI will enable them to functionally centrally plan the system.
That is China's bet, that DeepSeek will run things as well or better than a free market.

>post-scarcity society

I should have been more specific, this is a very poorly defined term in current era. I have the Isaac Arthur definition of (first stage) post-scarcity in mind, which means abundant cheap energy, automation and compute. Scarcity will always be a thing, we need better terminology for these civilizational steps.