In the case of China, the answer would be - fight off the Japanese, then fight the US backed KMT, launching speak bitterness rallies against large landlords alo

In the case of China, the answer would be - fight off the Japanese, then fight the US backed KMT, launching speak bitterness rallies against large landlords along the way, pour troops into North Korea in the 1950s, start a great leap forward campaign and then a Cultural Revolution. Then Mao and Zhou Enlai make some peace with the US and we carry on until Xi Jinping where you have the largest gdp-ppp in the world and the second largest nominal gdp in the world. Not in this prescription, and of course Deng Xiaoping aligned the economy to the changing world situation, but it was a different road, and other countries industrialized on this road as well.