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China fulfills a dream to end poverty. Not all poor people are feeling better off
LA Times via MSN ^ | 27 Nov 2020 | Alice Su

Posted on 11/27/2020 7:06:41 PM PST by blueplum

Standing near a mountaintop, overlooking two empty villages of mud and straw homes below, Communist Party secretary Cai Hongmin beamed: “We plucked out the people’s roots of poverty all at once.”...

...Many homes here in Lianghekou, a cluster of villages and vegetable patches perched amid the dry mountains of China’s Gansu province, would be demolished, others restored as part of a tourist attraction and mountaintop resort.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: china; communism; maoism; socialengineering
We tried this in the 70's, except for the resort thing. Offering the poverty-stricken rurals and urban dwellers new apartment blocks that quickly turned into slums and centers of crime. And so China heads down the same road, destroying its base of small farmers and agricultural workers instead of helping them modernize- in a land that can't feed themselves.
1 posted on 11/27/2020 7:06:41 PM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Plattenbau- cast concrete dehumanizing apartment blocks commonly found in Eastern Europe, notably East Germany, during the Communist years.


2 posted on 11/27/2020 7:28:49 PM PST by Fred Hayek (Antifa=BLM=RevCom=CPUSA = CCP=Democratic Party )
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To: blueplum

Socialism promises prosperity for all and delivers poverty to all.


3 posted on 11/27/2020 7:51:18 PM PST by BipolarBob ("Mother, can I trust the government")
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In capitalism you are guaranteed all that you can afford. In socialism you are guaranteed an equal portion of nothing.


4 posted on 11/27/2020 8:12:16 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (If the meanings in the Constitution can change, why did they bother writing it down?)
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To: blueplum

That was a very easy benchmark to achieve. Just adjust the measurements, the schools in the usa do it all the time on the kids, but end up graduating poorly educated kids into society.


5 posted on 11/27/2020 8:23:36 PM PST by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be the Cat Food instead.)
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End piverty, just shoot poor people?


6 posted on 11/27/2020 9:21:48 PM PST by Ikeon (if agreed with you we'd both be wrong. )
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To: blueplum

Maybe we can sell China more rice.


7 posted on 11/27/2020 9:40:16 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: BipolarBob

Ending poverty a dream of China, yeah right. Its one of the ways they control the masses


8 posted on 11/28/2020 3:18:07 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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Don’t they mean ending the complaints about being poor? I know a lot of people that have escaped china and hear a lot different story.


9 posted on 11/28/2020 3:23:30 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: blueplum

That is usually how it works. They take the poor rural people out of the land, move to cities, and create large agricultural projects or in this case...a resort?


10 posted on 11/28/2020 3:34:47 AM PST by EBH (God Save the Republic. God is in Control. God knows what He is doing. )
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China is a facade, having been there a few times for work, once you get past the superficial surface glitz, it’s pretty run down.


11 posted on 11/28/2020 4:47:56 AM PST by TexasM1A
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