Yes and No. I've traveled to China several times on extended visits, as recently as 2018. I would say there's an up-and-coming middle class and they've managed

Yes and No. I've traveled to China several times on extended visits, as recently as 2018. I would say there's an up-and-coming middle class and they've managed to eliminate some _extreme poverty_, but with a lot of asterisks. The methods are not not great (hey the end justifies the means, right? seems to be popular mantra these days, even in the USA) and they sometimes come at great distress to human rights (forced factory staffing... but hey, your'e getting paid right?).