Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "Chinese Economy Sees More Painful Slowdown | China’s New World Order Vision | NATO \u0026 China" video.

@alec6521 My guess is between 33% and 50% of the official size. I've been wondering the same thing for a couple of years but I have no access to data that can narrow it in. I do see small signs of improvement here and there: on the chest-thumping China-is-so-great videos about stupid white elephant megaprojects, the construction workers have better and better safety equipment the newer the video is. They are getting close to Western/Japanese/South Korean/Taiwanese standards now. I also see rice farmers wearing rubber boots now instead of walking around barefoot in the wet rice paddies -- which protects against getting cut by sharp stones and against parasites that attack through the feet. Little things like that make me happy. People are still quite poor, though, and ordinary people in big cities still look a lot poorer than they do in rural Ukraine during a war.
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The official Chinese GDP already seems to high to be true -- and they claim that the growth continues during all their stupid lockdowns, trade problems, energy problems, drought, trade embargos, etc!? "It's just a scratch, my GDP is still growing."
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