Comment on China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty

0ddysseus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Numberone@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, a couple of decades ago China was a miracle as western institutions repeatedly redefined the poverty threshold to make global poverty look like it was improving. Back then it was touting the power of the free market, with most of the gains being in China. Now that they want conflict with China, those numbers are no longer good enough. I’m not saying China doesn’t have a poverty problem, I’m just saying this is illustrative of propaganda changing the narrative.

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  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s no secret that the Chinese economy is faltering. How many of their “too big to fail” corps have gone tits up in the past 2 years? We’ve all seen the videos of people struggling to even afford living in cages. Also, calling it propaganda when you have no data to back up or refute the claims made in the article just makes you look like a tankie.

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