• Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    Yeah, but how is the quality of life for the average person in the PRC? Honest question, because I don’t know. I’m American they would have us believe that the average Chinese citizen is living one step of from a factory slave.

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      2 hours ago

      I’m American they would have us believe that the average Chinese citizen is living one step of from a factory slave.

      Download RedNote and see for yourself. You’ll never get a full picture from social media alone, but you can see a lot.

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      7 hours ago

      Varies dramatically depending on where you live, because China is an extremely rapidly developing country that was as poor as Haiti is today 100 years ago. Quality of life overall is good, and rising rapidly.

      I know this doesn’t say actual statistics and stats, but watching videos that actually show China can help de-mystify it.

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        2 hours ago

        China is an extremely rapidly developing country that was as poor as Haiti is today 100 years ago.

        I’d say 75, at the end of the Civil War. The firsthand descriptions of rural China from Fanshen come from around that period and are basically late-feudal, but ravaged by a few decades of major wars.