Comment by direwolf20
19 days ago
I don't care about the numbers, I care about the growth. They went from zero to high speed trains linking all major cities in a decade. They went from manufacturing cheap slop knockoffs of American products to top–of–the–line locally–designed products in about the same time. They make their own semiconductors now.
I care about the absolute level of development, not the change.
The fact that China wasted decades on a failed economic ideology explains why they were so undeveloped up until the 1980's.
If anything, China is simply catching up (in some ways) to developed countries. While certainly admirable, achieving what has already been done in other places isn't that impressive.