China Says It Has Ended Poverty. Is That True?
Shifting poor people into cities can also be a way of reducing rural poverty, but it can come at the cost of increased urban poverty
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Conversation With Evan Osnos: Joe Biden, Asia and ‘What Matters Now’
China is not an enemy of the United States.
Migrant workers and their children
One of the greatest human migrations of all times – hundreds of millions of young men and women from the countryside poured into the factories and construction sites of China’s coastal boom towns.
China fulfills a dream to end poverty, but not all poor people are feeling better off
The CCP has spent $20.6 billion in 2020 alone on poverty alleviation, topping an increase of $3 billion in anti-poverty spending each year.
Migrant Workers Behind China’s Economic Miracle Are Miserable
China’s cities are becoming more and more hostile to the people on whose backs they were built, and the migrants are not feeling the gains of the government’s promise.
Income Inequality In the U.S. Is Rising Most Rapidly Among Asians
From 1970 to 2016, the gap in the standard of living between Asians near the top and the bottom of the income ladder nearly doubled.
Charts that show how Deng Xiaoping unleashed China’s pent-up capitalist energy in 1978
Deng Xiaoping said “We need large numbers of pathbreakers who dare to think, explore new ways and generate new ideas.”
In U.S.-China Relations, the Threat of Conflict Is Present but Not Inevitable
There are more forces working against conflict between U.S. and China than towards it.
Margaret Lewis on ethnic profiling in the DOJ’s China Initiative
The name of the DOJ/FBI/CIA policy “China Initiative” is itself a form of “racial profiling”.
China Is A Paper Dragon
Can democracy compete in the 21st century with autocracies?