How China Defeated Poverty - American Affairs Journal
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Who wrote that the Chinese are “the wisest and best governed people in the world”? That they perfected “morality” as well as “political economy” to such an extent that “in those fields we need to be their disciples”? Today such comments would be presumed to come from the worst kind of “China apologist”—a “shill”—at best deluded, at worst brain­washed. But the man who wrote...

China’s poverty alleviation program, launched in 2014, involved massive human and financial resources, with over 3 million party secretaries and residents dispatched to carry out targeted poverty alleviation and ¥14 trillion spent in total. The poverty alleviation initiative was motivated by both pragmatic considerations and a vision of government, which emphasizes the importance of public trust and confidence in the system.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      18·
      10 个月前

      This is what a people’s party looks like as opposed to bourgeoisie parties we have in the west.

  • cfgaussianM
    16·
    10 个月前

    This is if not the best then certainly one of the best and most comprehensive pieces on China’s poverty alleviation program written for a Western audience that i’ve ever read. I’m shocked that such a piece was published in American Affairs Journal of all places. What the hell is going on here?

    Edit: Ah. I just saw who the author is. Well that explains it.

      • deathtoreddit
        8·
        10 个月前

        Well, they want a model for common prosperity, don’t they? Plus some mentions and flattering of western philosophers, and the article passed through!

  • PolandIsAStateOfMindEnglish
    16·
    10 个月前

    It didn’t matter to Western commentators that the vast majority of affected people (my in-laws included) were happy to leave their small, toilet-free dwellings with communal kitchens in favor of apartments with modern amenities. The focus was on the small minority that wasn’t.

    Turn out that freedom from toilet is essential human freedom in the west. Or, as the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan noticed in XVII century: “Europeans maybe could become great men, if only they washed their bottoms”.

    Also Poland fact: interwar prime minister Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski ordered building outhouses and latrines in Polish villages (the hygiene state of rural Poland was so horrible back then, that they mostly didn’t had even those) and ever since then the outhouse is known in Poland as “Sławojka”.