In the 70s, 88% of China's population lived in extreme poverty. As US-China relations improved, they introduced more capitalism. By 1996, that % was halved. Once we gave them normal trade relations, walked them into the WTO & they embraced more capitalism, extreme poverty is < 1%
When US politicians and their flunkies say stupid crap like "nobody should be a billionaire", ask them how they plan to police the other billionaires in the world + if they are concerned about a "balance of power", why are they going to give all the "power" to foreign interests?
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