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kleinbl00 · 2299 days ago · link · · parent · post: China to move millions of people from homes in anti-poverty drive.
I wouldn't look at it that way - I mean, there's 1.4 billion people over there (give or take a couple-three hundred million because estimates vary) in the world's second-largest economy. 100 years ago they were effectively feudal; 50 years ago they were effectively communist. There's a lot to grapple with. And the Chinese do not fuck around when they do big social projects. The Great Leap Forward was barely 50 years ago and it killed like 10 million people; the Cultural Revolution was less than 50 years ago and it was pretty hardcore in and of itself.