"As of July 2022, the “new middle-class in China” has grown to represent 13.7% of the total net population. It's growing at 15.6% year-on-year and reached 163 million this year."

"India; 41.6% of its population (540 million people approx.) is living below the new international poverty line of $1.25 (PPP) per day."

For starters, India has just about the worst wealth distribution in the world. The Indian majority:

1 Earns far less than the "average"
2 Works long hours with no overtime,
3 Has almost no protection from labour laws
4 Gets no unemployment insurance
5 Gets no pension
6 Gets little to no free health care
7 Faces the cost of buying a house of 40yrs salary,
8 Faces constant censorship and no free speech
9 Faces arbitrary arrest and courts that assume guilt

China's average income NOW exceeds that of India.

Pauliar,

You are a shill and your last post proves it. Just about everything you posted is a lie.

India does have labour laws that courts support,
India does not censor all speech,
India's courts don't assume that the accused is guilty,
India does have some level of free health care.
India does have a state-funded aged pension
The house price to salary index in India is 9 compared to 36 in China

Wow, are you chaps still trying to find a way to justify genocide? Forced sterilisations, slave farms, forced abortions, family separation, executions, concentration camps, forced re-education. And as a response you want to talk about the cost of chocolate? Struth!

Paul makes up claims of slavery in Bangladesh as he races to find a reason to excuse the CCP, while claiming that he doesn't race to find a reason to excuse the CCP!!

Agreed, wages in third world countries are bad. That's why they're called third world countries. But garment workers in Bangladesh get around the average wage of other workers in that country, and they have a job. I read recently of a strike in Bangladesh over higher wages for garment workers. I don't think its a feature of slave labour that they strike to get higher wages, but mere facts are the least of Paul's concerns as he races to find a reason to excuse the CCP.

I can't help but notice that AC continues to avoid the evidence of leaked Chinese documents on the genocide. After all, how can you blame the evil USA when there are Chinese documents telling another story.

mhaze,

I'm sure the Americans have tons of "leaked" Chinese documents, they can wheel out, an incrimination document or three, on all the evils of that wicked empire. Maybe they got them from all those "spy" balloons they supposedly shot down. Gee, the Chinese were even spying on the polar bears in Alaska, oh deary me.

SM,

According to the latest World Bank figures, 21.9% of Indians live below the accepted poverty line (income of less than $3.65/day), whereas the World Bank reports 0.0% of Chinese live below the same accepted poverty line. As your pin up Gal the Lovely Pauline would say PLEASE EXPLAIN!

India has no universal aged pension, whereas in China the universal pension is for everyone.

In China the normal pension age is 60 years, 50 years for blue collar women and 55 years for white collar women. The basic pension pays 1% of the average of the indexed individual wage for each year worked, minimum of 15 years, or a pension based on the province-wide average earnings, whichever is the greater.

"In China the normal pension age is 60 years"

What's the pension age for Uighur slaves?

Comparing China to India is invalid. For most of the post-WW2 period India was a socialist nightmare where development was restrained and what development occurred was throttled in the crib. It has only been this century that India has seen the need to let the market thrive and only since then that India has thrived.

If you want to compare capitalist to communist in terms of human development and/or welfare then look at North Korea v. South Korea or West Germany v. East Germany or Poland under the communists and now-free Poland.