Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "6300 is Confidential? Foreign media reporters smear Zhengzhou?" video.

@pr914 Yes, lots of anti-CCP (and anti-China, in a national sense) hatred from the people here. For all its faults, China has done a good job lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. People will counter with "well who put them there??" And yes, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were bad, but even before both of those things, most Chinese under the Qing were poor. So the economic growth was and is real. There's little room for nuance on youtube though.
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@mandranmagelan9430 I'm not a communist. And I hate neoliberals. Sorry.
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@wisdomleader85 Ffs. When exactly did I say that no capitalism was involved in lifting the Chinese out of poverty? My point was that they managed the transition well-- Russia's weak governance in the 1990s led to enormous amounts of capital flight and money laundering which, while also present in China, were reduced and kept mostly within the country's borders, respectively. They could easily have let their corruption stifle their economic growth, but because of the authoritarian government's insistence on infrastructural development, the corruption simply lives on in business transactions, rather than state seizure of private assets. Understand now? And please refrain from assuming exaggerations about the other side, it gives away your American disposition. I don't watch CGTN. Good economy =/= good politics.
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@wisdomleader85 You sound like you're moving the goalposts. My point was that the CCP successfully managed-- and encouraged-- the transition to a market-bassd economy, while avoiding the pitfalls that other countries, like those of the former USSR, fell to. And obviously, the people have done the brunt work. That's... how an economy works. Do we not give the US government any credit for its successful industrialization, in spite of Europe already having been competitive, during the 1800s? The hard work matters, but so does the organization of it. If not put to use and funded in the right way (infrastructure), it doesn't matter how big or productive your labor force could be.
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