When one criticizes X (and only X), then -X which might be equally bad gets scot free. That's no logical error, it's a fact (that nothing is said of -X).
So either one does an exhaustive critique of all classes of X, or his critique implicitly favors one of them (it's like if one's two kids do a similar bad thing and he only scolds one of them).
My argument was just trying to bring some counter-balance (to have the -X items people consider as "opposite" to the class of X you criticized, judged too).
The U.S. Economy is to a smaller extent a command economy due to central bank control of currency and interest rates, so it's not 'unlike the U.S..' If he'd talk about the U.S., it'd be 'like the U.S.'.
You're making the classic logic mistake of assuming because I said X, I also must be implying Y.