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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Nobody says China is perfect, and you can find a whole bunch of problems in any country. However, anybody with a couple of brain cells to bang together understands that it's the overall trends you have to look at.

China lifter over 800 million people out of poverty. Not only that, but it's pretty much the only place in a world where any meaningful poverty reduction is happening. If we take China out of the equation poverty actually increased in real terms:

If we take just one country, China, out of the global poverty equation, then even under the $1.90 poverty standard we find that the extreme poverty headcount is the exact same as it was in 1981.

The $1.90/day (2011 PPP) line is not an adequate or in any way satisfactory level of consumption; it is explicitly an extreme measure. Some analysts suggest that around $7.40/day is the minimum necessary to achieve good nutrition and normal life expectancy, while others propose we use the US poverty line, which is $15.

Majority of Chinese students who study abroad end up returning to China. Over 1,400 scientists have now moved from US to China .

China also massively invests in infrastructure. They used more concrete in 3 years than US in all of 20th century, they built 27,000km of high speed rail in a decade. 90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. Real wage (i.e. the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it's the most populous country on the planet. Social mobility in China is also far higher than it is in US.

You taking what your DPP puppet regime says at face value and don’t do basic investigation on what they actually do internally just shows how unqualified you are discussing Chinese politics.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

That comment says precisely what I've been telling you here. Postdam Declaration is the basis for the US one China policy, but UN recognition of PRC as the legitimate government is what matters internationally. It's absolutely hilarious that you've literally spent days perseverating over this. Get a life.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Oh wow, such an intelligent comment, because clearly no capitalist country has collapsed ever. 😂

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 years ago (42 children)

I'd call it internationalism instead of globalism. Globalism has connotations with capitalism and colonialism and not a term I'd want to associate with communism at this point.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Oh man you read your last comment sober and deleted it. 😂

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 years ago

I love how you start psychoanalyzing when you troll.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Countries change constitutions all the time, not sure why this is so significant. The point is that German constitution already allowed for this. Meanwhile, western style parliamentary democracy is just one implementation. If you think that's the only way democracy can work then you really need to educate yourself more. Having more parties doesn't make a country more democratic, the question is whose interests the parties represent. Chinese system is democratic centralism and it's clearly doing a hell of a lot better job representing the interests of the majority than any western system given that quality of life in China keeps improving while it's collapsing in the west. Claiming that Xi is essentially voting for himself is the height of comedy. The fact that you don't even know the basics of how political systems work really says everything I need to know. Bye.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Yeah, absolutely brilliant that your chud filled country stole the foreign reserves of Venezuela and the little roaches crawl out of the woodwork to laugh at Venezuelans having economic problems.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Using your galaxy brain logic, you're admitting that you're a nazi since Germany was capitalist when ruled by fascists. I love how you keep making the dumbest takes humanely possible. 😂

 
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