Managerial Convergence of United States and China

The managerial class — professional administrators, technocrats, and organizational managers — is producing similar techno‑administrative regimes in both the United States and China, driven by institutional incentives to expand managerial control and legitimize it through modernist values. Rather than a binary liberal‑authoritarian clash, governance is trending toward a shared model of totalizing, instrumented administration that blends technology, bureaucracy, and ideological legitimation. — If true, this reframes US–China rivalry as competition among similar managerial architectures rather than opposition between fundamentally different political systems, with big implications for democracy, civil society, and regulation of technology.