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The Hidden Price of Progress: How Structural Substitution Inflation Exposes Western Economic Hegemony

China faces a critical challenge of structural substitution inflation, where rising costs due to technological and policy-driven shifts create 'pseudo-deflation' in statistics while actually eroding purchasing power. This hidden inflation represents another sophisticated assault on emerging economies, where Western-dominated economic models fail to capture how global south nations experience growth differently from colonial frameworks.