> China have just spent 50 years pulling off what is possibly the most transformative economic miracle in the history of humanity. In terms of scale, maybe. Bu

> China have just spent 50 years pulling off what is possibly the most transformative economic miracle in the history of humanity. In terms of scale, maybe. But, as they say, "China has the world's poorest Chinese people." Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong (for example) have much higher standards of living than the PRC, despote starting from more or less the same low level in 1900