‘China lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.’
Wrong.
China abandoned socialist economy. And the Chinese people lifted ourselves out of poverty.
What did the state do?
They kept people in poverty for decades through their fanatical socialist experiments, which they had to abandon due to abject and glaring failures.
I don’t remember anyone ‘lifting’ anyone out of poverty, in my family, my friends’ families, in countrysides, cities. The use of the word ‘lifting’ is a propagandistic language that gives agency and credit to the state, and treats the people of China as patients to an external cure. It also makes the PRC sound like a welfare state. Nothing is further from the truth.
So please part your way with the language of ‘lifting’. It is a false claim and frankly insulting to everyone in China over past decades who worked hard to improve the livelihood of their own and their families. There are plenty of much better words here.
Most of those were pawns of the US in its cold war era or right after to undermine the regional influence of Russia. And they're not all that well. Look at the state of the Japanese economy since the US crashed their economy with the plaza accord.
Every country you list here got huge aid from America or other western nations, interesting, so capitalism is when charity?
Japan and virtually all developed countries are out as they resorted to deliberate genocides and stealing of resources from natives.
South Korea is fine now, but UN forces killed about 3m North Koreans and Chinese followed by strictest sanctions on it.
Singapore? It is a city state. Great LQY though.
Taiwan? It was under Marshall law until 1980s.
Poland? Without it being next to EU countries who are willing to help it, it would be still very poor.
Chile is hardly a good example with Pinochet, an ultra rightwing junta and millions disappeared.
Why don't you mention dire poverty in India (which is closest to China in many sense) and most African States in the rich and large continent of Africa?
Nothing compared to what China has achieved despite not being virtual American vassals like virtually all of those countries are.
You don’t know shit about anything, not even the little red dot Singapore. Try not to keep digging your own hole… It’s getting quite embarrassing.
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