China

I'm trying to figure out if I believe this really is a win for China.

Basically, Shein is an Amazon for the production line where you have any sort of organization represented, i,e, could be mom-and-pop prod, to companies, to co-ops, Shein itself is, as the video points out, just a data platform. So the exact nature of Shein is harder to pinpoint since it's structured heterogeneously (with regards to as to who owns Shein's means of production). But it is Shein who controls the labour process and who appropriates surplus value. Is Shein running a micro-planned-economy because it does economic planning (fashion forecasting) before production? For me that is a no. The reason Shein can operate the way it does is however because China operates under five-year plans with a specific focus on energy, home-ownership and the vegetable-basket program. So perhaps a win, but this is still, I'm guessing, a pretty exploitative business model if you are just looking at Shein. Socialism with Chinese characteristics aims at developing the productive forces, is Shein itself doing that? To me that is a no, but this further makes me wonder; is merely existing within Chinas socialist framework enough to fulfil that criteria?