Exactly. Capitalism has helped more people out of poverty than any other system on earth. China’s economy relies on coercion and slave labor.
To some extent that is true. But what really lifted large numbers of Chinese citizens out of abject poverty was the infusion of American technology and business practices into China when certain US companies decided to move manufacturing operations to China, and to source products from China.
The Chinese government changed some of their policies to accommodate their new western partners, but without the western investments and partnerships their citizens would still be mired in poverty.
Sanders is presenting a false view of the situation and conveniently ignoring the vast benefits of technology and expertise developed in the United States for countries all over the world.
Does Bernie realize, as one simple example, that the entire technological infrastructure of the Chinese cell phone industry is based on innovations created in the United States?