For a start, after decades of state direction only 35% of adults have bank accounts.
The threat must not be used as an excuse for unnecessary state direction and control.
With state direction these were always liable to turn into idealized figures in an idealized landscape.
But over time, the contradictions between anarchic opportunism and state direction, both vital to China's rise, will surely result in greater friction.
In a speech this month a senior Chinese official emphasised the role abroad of China's "private" firms, which typically have less overt state direction.
An advocate of state direction of the economy before 1989, Iliescu, as president, remained wary of private enterprise and the move toward a free market.
China's ban on exports of crucial rare earth minerals, cast by the government as a corporate decision made without state direction, is the most recent example of the tensions this drift toward state control has raised.
At the same, though, Estonia will see more state direction in the economy than they are used to, not as a matter of ideology, but as a matter of circumstance.
A map produced by consultants for the site's owners, MBA-Manorhaven L.L.C., which is carrying out a voluntary cleanup under state direction, shows groundwater on the industrial property flowing south, directly toward the neighboring co-ops.
State direction of the farmers' savings, through a controlled national financial system, into protected, yet export-oriented, new industries turns the wheel of industrialisation in a virtuous economic circle.
Bears also believed that the high degree of state direction in the Chinese economy was not an advantage, as many admirers liked to imagine, but a chronic weakness that fostered opacity, corruption and the misallocation of capital.
