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This is comparable to the total industrial output of the United States, Japan, and Germany. China has become an industrial colossus capable of independently matching the entire West.
These high production capabilities and regular growth give China a great advantage in terms of self-sufficiency, global trade, and military production.
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They weren’t joking about developing the productive forces lol
Meanwhile Maoists and other ultras still keep making fun of the very idea of developing the productive forces. The only reason they still believe that such a strategy cannot bring a benefit to the people is because they themselves have never seen this happen in their own countries and cannot imagine what an enormous improvement this produces in the living standards of millions and millions of people.
The last time their own countries went through something like this they weren’t even born yet. For their countries “developing productive forces” now means outsourcing them to the global south. Ultras like to think of themselves as “the most communist communists” but in reality they too have yet to escape the mental prison of liberalism which constrains their thinking and the possibilities which they can imagine.
Just wait until all the children of the hundreds of millions lifted out of poverty start to enjoy full access to good education, high speed rail, housing, health care, etc. All those points you made elsewhere about the US being unable to fix its military problems because half its people are practically illiterate and they have no schools for training machine workers – exact opposite in China. It’s not just China creeping ahead while the west slows down. It’s China zooming ahead while the west hurtles backwards.
So envious of china ngl. They are the only state ready to embrace this next stage of development, the west was not ready and ultimately decided to become a parasite off the global south instead of further developing.
Absolutely, and there’s actually a good paper on this https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2108900118
And it’s an underestimate because it’s on a value added based.
is there any data on what it’s like now or in 2022?
I didn’t look too hard, but couldn’t find anything more current from a cursory search.
China still has room to grow too
