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paulorlandoyesterday at 9:33 PM1 replyview on HN

The chart you listed is for the years before the CCP won the civil war in 1949. But agreed that many of the problems overcome were also problems that were created after the war.


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Retricyesterday at 10:19 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist-controlled_China_(19...

Starting at 1949 is overly generous IMO, but yes the purges that followed didn’t help.

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