Those countries are explicitly communist, so that’s pretty much a given. Presumably in China the same holds true, the central bank will do what Xi wants. But in the West pretty much every central bank just does its own thing, regardless of what the government wants, and this could really explain why it’s been so hard for centre left parties to actually accomplish the things they want to do. Even when they get in power, they’re still limited by the inherently conservative budget constraints and interest rates imposed by the central bank, who are always run by bankers that have a vested interest in making sure the working class is ‘kept in its place’.

It’s actually kind of embarrassing that even supposed centre left parties just accepted the neoliberal framing and Chicago school economics, and it’s a good thing there’s more pushback from the likes of the MMT economists (and Marxists who never changed their tune) who say that there’s really way more budgetary space if you can break through the current political consensus.