This article is the latest piece being used by Western leftists to condemn all of China even though it misrepresents the fact that China has decided to scrap its *planned GDP target* for this year to mean that China will abandon forever a planned economy. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-23/xi-says-china-won-t-return-to-planned-economy-urges-cooperation

What President Xi actually stated is that they are taking "a dialectical, long term perspective" on the economy.

The real question is why do Western leftists latch onto any opportunity from Western media to dismiss China despite knowing the media's bias?
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-05/24/c_139082057.htm

The eagerness with which Western leftists disseminated this false article that has no citations to condemn China reveals how chauvanistic Western leftists are & how they seek to tear down nations struggling for socialism while their own capitalist countries imperialize the world.

The Western left is deeply chauvanistic & looks for any opportunity to deride, belittle, sneer at, & dismiss China & countries like Vietnam's socialist project while they themselves lack any viable socialist project & benefit from their own nation's capitalist imperialist project

The road the socialism is an extremely long one that a handful of countries have undertaken the struggle towards. Meanwhile the Western left sits from their comfortable perch in the imperial core & viciously attacks any perception of a slight misstep & tears down these countries.

The Western left is deeply chauvanistic & uses ideological purity tests & propaganda to tear down global south countries struggling for socialism & anti-imperialism, while themselves failing to even get a "democratic socialist" candidate nominated in their capitalist countries.