So I decided to look up the US and see how it compares.
Whataboutism.
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https://data.oecd.org/conversion/purchasing-power-parities-ppp.htm
Purchasing power parity of China is 4.022. So let's look at the overall poverty line of $2.30 in China. That would be equalivent to $9.25 a day in America, or $3,376 a year.
China makes their poverty rates appear so low by making their poverty line absolutely ridiculous and actually much lower than comparable countries.
Of course I couldn't any PPP rates for just rural China (although it's pretty obvious $3,376 isn't going to suddenly becoming $30,000 because it's rural), but see this:
Our results indicate that the mean subjective poverty line of the rural households is 8297 yuan per capita, which is far higher than the national poverty line (2800 yuan). Statistically, 29% of the surveyed rural households who are not objectively poor feel subjectively poor.
Oh well if they say their production is socialist guided then they're tooootally socialist! Just ignore the privately owned factories paying people $2 a day and the fact billionaires still exist.
Yeah they totally just invited their fellow fascists over for funzies.
China is socialist in name only.
"Blood and soil" nationalism, Han chinese supremacy, xenophobia and some of the most closed borders in the world, repression of minorities and political dissidents, etc. etc. etc. etc.
She travelled to fucking Beijing to meet with party officials. But yeah I'm sure random ass nobodies invited her.
You're fighting with the air. I very clearly said Libya wasn't ok.
You're right, massacres aren't battles and we shouldn't call them that. Of course that doesn't make it any better but why call it a battle if it's not?
guaranteed standard of living
For people under the poverty line, which is only $2.30 a day. So their "standard of living" is $840 a year to get by on. Even in China that's not fucking sustainable.
China has a way to go in terms of healthcare and other benefits
So you're saying you're cool with Chinese farmers not being able to afford going to the hospital because Supreme Leader Xi forced them to grow the cheapest crops imaginable?
If that out of work rural worker wants the minimum income and a roof over his head, all he has to do is go back home
Lol. Lmao even. "Losing your job and abandoning your home because of authoritarian regulations is ok'
An unnecessary comparison. I'm talking about 1 in 40 Chinese people facing hunger, this has absolutely nothing to do with America.