The Chinese may have taken more people out of extreme poverty than any other culture in the history of the world, but then they had a VERY much larger pool of people in extreme poverty than any other country has ever had. And for that matter, they STILL have more people in extreme poverty than any nation today.
There may be pockets of the world where depth of poverty is greater than any in China, but then, those regions are marked by even lower literacy rates and access to resources.
American Free Traitors™ made tons of money by giving away the store to the ChiComs and selling out the American work force..