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I’ve even seen some of them claim that China’s lack of “handouts” is what allows it to prosper.
If you wanted to be devil’s advocate maybe if you take “handouts” to mean the general social democratic compromises then those alone would not account for China’s development either. A capitalist country giving people a check(like the US) is doing nothing but a concession to stop things from becoming much much worse.
It makes sense then that China wouldn’t need to be so superficial and instead focus on more broad changes to material conditions. You could even argue that if all that is stopping the people from revolting and collapse is a monthly check then you are definitely doing something wrong. So if you are really generous you could say the fact China isn’t relying on direct money transfers to grow the economy is a good thing.
Of course this is probably giving way too much benefit of the doubt to that argument, he could well be regurgitating the same Fox News talking points we already know about.
