Source: South China Morning PostChina’s recent white paper celebrating the end of extreme poverty will be dismissed by critics as propaganda or PR fluff. Yet what cannot easily be dismissed is the evidence that mainland China has indeed made extraordinary economic progress over recent decades, and that its leaders have achieved much of what they set out to do in eradicating absolute poverty.The speed with which draconian measures were introduced to curb the spread of Covid-19 is also telling. Those living elsewhere, including…Read More